Watercolour Album depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion.
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since June 27, 1998
Condition: Used
US$ 34,036.53
Quantity: 1 available
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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. Provenance: Wilhelmina Jacoba van Lente, Haurezand 925, Lazen (N-H) (ownership inscription).
Seller Inventory # 86939
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Watercolour Album depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion.
- Author
- [CHINA.
- Binding
- Hardcover
Shapero Rare Books
London, United Kingdom
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Shapero Rare Books
94 New Bond Street
London, United Kingdom W1S 1SJ
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