MING DYNASTY, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY

Compare a large hanging scroll depicting the Daoist pantheon in the Musee Guimee Collection, exhibited in Taoism & the Arts of China, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, no. 85. In this painting the deities are also dressed in luxuriously adorned garments in a celestial heaven amidst ruyi clouds, and is dated to circa 1600. Another similar scroll with the same dating was also included in the exhibition, no. 86.