AN EIGHT-FOLD SCREEN DEPICTING THE FEAST OF THE IMMORTALS DATED TO THE THIRD MONTH OF THE GUIHAI YEAR OF KANGXI, CORRESPONDING TO 1683, AND OF THE PERIOD Finely painted in ink and color on silk, depicting The Feast of the Immortals in the paradise on Mount Kunlun, included amongst the figures are the Eight Immortals crossing the water in the foreground below two figures standing on a terrace and higher up Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, accompanied by an entourage of musicians and attendants, and also in the clouds Shoulao riding on a crane, an inscription at the bottom reads, Kangxi guihai muchun Wuxi Yan Shengsun zhi (made by Yan Shengsun of Wuxi in the third month of the guihai year of the Kangxi era) 81 x 148 in. (206 x 380 cm.)
AN EIGHT-FOLD SCREEN DEPICTING THE FEAST OF THE IMMORTALS DATED TO THE THIRD MONTH OF THE GUIHAI YEAR OF KANGXI, CORRESPONDING TO 1683, AND OF THE PERIOD Finely painted in ink and color on silk, depicting The Feast of the Immortals in the paradise on Mount Kunlun, included amongst the figures are the Eight Immortals crossing the water in the foreground below two figures standing on a terrace and higher up Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, accompanied by an entourage of musicians and attendants, and also in the clouds Shoulao riding on a crane, an inscription at the bottom reads, Kangxi guihai muchun Wuxi Yan Shengsun zhi (made by Yan Shengsun of Wuxi in the third month of the guihai year of the Kangxi era) 81 x 148 in. (206 x 380 cm.)
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