🎉 Up to 70% Off Selected ItemsShop Sale
Watercolour Album
Chinese folk religion
A fine collection of Qing dynasty watercolours depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion, incorporating elements from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Each image caption in manuscript in Traditional Chinese.Album (24.5 x 13.5 cm); 70 watercolours on paper, many heightened with gold, MS inscriptions to each watercolour, MS title in Traditional Chinese to endpaper, ownership inscription in pen to pastedown; orange endpapers, cloth boards, cover detached, ff coming detached from spine, housed in a modern green calf-backed solander box, spine lettered in gilt.
$3,790,111.50
Watercolour Album—
$3,790,111.50
Description
Chinese folk religion
A fine collection of Qing dynasty watercolours depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion, incorporating elements from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Each image caption in manuscript in Traditional Chinese.Album (24.5 x 13.5 cm); 70 watercolours on paper, many heightened with gold, MS inscriptions to each watercolour, MS title in Traditional Chinese to endpaper, ownership inscription in pen to pastedown; orange endpapers, cloth boards, cover detached, ff coming detached from spine, housed in a modern green calf-backed solander box, spine lettered in gilt.
