A goddess with a stag China, 18th C. - image-1

Lot 60 Dα

A goddess with a stag China, 18th C.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)
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A goddess with a stag
China, 18th C.

Glass panel painted on reverse in transparent pigments and gilded. With minor localised retouches. Painted wooden frame, H 17.9, W 12.9 cm.

Depicted is the Chinese goddess Xīwángmǔ. In Chinese mythology, she is the Queen Mother of the West, the highest-ranking goddess in the Daoist pantheon. In her magical garden in the mythical Kunlun Mountains grow the peaches of immortality. She is accompanied by a stag, a white tiger, the three-legged blue bird, the nine-tailed fox or the hare.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Strüngmann, Tegernsee.
Auctioned by Hampel, Munich 1990.
Auctioned by Neumeister, Munich 2008.

Literature

Illus. in Berthelier/Geyssant, La peinture sous verre un art ancien toujours actuel, Chartres 2011, p. 79.

Exhibitions

2010 - 2011 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres.