AN IMPERIAL SILK KESI PICTURE QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

of rectangular form, intricately woven with a scene depicting a lady and her attendant standing before a balustrade beneath a tall overhanging wutong tree issuing clusters of leaves, the lady gracefully standing with her left hand resting on the balustrade and her right hand holding a large round fan, her head turned to her right whilst she looks at the fluttering butterflies near the tree, her attendant similarly depicted gazing at butterflies whilst holding a qin wrapped in a cloth with both hands

Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London.

Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 2002, cat. no. 100.

A closely related kesi picture of a female immortal and attendant in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is illustrated in Robert D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 2000, no. 497.