Chinese School
19th century
Handscroll, ink and colours on silk, depicting a gathering of Daoist Immortals riding their attributes across a wildly-breaking sea towards a rocky promontory where a procession wearing attractive robes approaches other Daoist figures preparing tea, reading books, riding a tiger and atop a qilin, one Immortal perched on a lugubrious elephant, the end of the scroll with an attendant receiving a rolled handscroll from Shoulao seated on a rock, inscribed, one seal.
40cm x 393.6cm (15¾in x 155in)
Handscroll, ink and colours on silk, depicting a gathering of Daoist Immortals riding their attributes across a wildly-breaking sea towards a rocky promontory where a procession wearing attractive robes approaches other Daoist figures preparing tea, reading books, riding a tiger and atop a qilin, one Immortal perched on a lugubrious elephant, the end of the scroll with an attendant receiving a rolled handscroll from Shoulao seated on a rock, inscribed, one seal.
40cm x 393.6cm (15¾in x 155in)
Sold for
£11,400
inc. premium
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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