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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A VERY FINE AND LARGE EMBROIDERED DAOIST IMMORTALS ‘BIRTHDAY’ PANEL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The large, rectangular panel is fnely embroidered with an elaborate scene depicting Xiwangmu, Queen
Mother of the West, riding on a phoenix while accompanied by a female attendant holding a feather fan,
as she descends towards Shoulao and two of the Eight Daoist Immortals waiting on a terrace lapped by
the waves of the sea to ofer birthday felicitations to Xiwangmu, while the other fve immortals are shown
below, all accompanied by female and male attendants in a setting of pavilions, mountains, a stream,
vaporous clouds, rocks and trees, including peach, pine and wutong, all in shades of blue, peach, green,
cream, red and brown and with some details executed in Peking knot; now mounted as a scroll.
76 x 41 in. (193 x 104 cm.), Japanese wood box

$150,000-250,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kyoto, Japan.

清乾隆 藍地繡西王母祝壽圖屏

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