A LARGE EMBROIDERED DAOIST IMMORTALS 'BIRTHDAY' PANEL

JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A LARGE EMBROIDERED DAOIST IMMORTALS 'BIRTHDAY' PANEL
JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
The large rectangular painting is finely woven with an elaborate scene depicting Xiwangmu, Queen Mother of the West, riding on a phoenix accompanied by female attendants, and Shoulao, riding on a crane, arriving at a celestial terrace where various immortals including the Eight Daoist Immortals were waiting to offer birthday felicitations to Xiwangmu. The entire scene is set against a celestial paradise with pavilions, jagged mountains, vaporous clouds and layered rocks which grow peach, pine and wutong trees, all picked out in different shades of blue, green, cream, orange and brown, some details further weaved with seed pearls, against a golden-yellow ground.
Approx. 91 x 37 3/8 in. (231 x 95 cm.), mounted as a hanging scroll

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Kong Family Collection, acquired prior to 1960

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The present embroidered painting is highly unusual as different weaving techniques were employed including Peking knots and the use of precious sea pearls as embellishments.

The motif of Daoist immortals offering birthday felicitations to Xiwangmu has always been a popular subject matter on embroidery throughout time. A large kesi tapestry dated to the Qing dynasty with similar subject matter is in the Liaoning Provincial Museum Collection and was included in the exhibition, Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Urban Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995, Catalogue no. 119. Another silk tapestry, also depicting the birthday scene of Xiwangmu but with only female immortals, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Silk Tapestry and Embroidery in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 45.