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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
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$3,790,111.50

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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.