A KESI ‘IMMORTAL’ PANEL 17TH CENTURY

of rectangular form, decorated with a female immortal holding a basket of flowers and looking back to another male immortal holding a staff suspending lotus sprays, all set on a rocky ledge in a landscape with pine tree and vaporous clouds, mounted

This panel is in reasonably good condition, but the thread for the staff is missing. There is some scuffing to the upper and lower sections of the panel and there is a diagonal crease running to the lower right.
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