A LARGE CHINESE BAMBOO 'IMMORTALS' MOUNTAIN CARVING

A LARGE CHINESE BAMBOO 'IMMORTALS' MOUNTAIN CARVING
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Carved as a craggy mountainscape detailed with pavilions amongst wutong and pine trees, the front with a group of Immortals climbing up the mountain to bear gifts to The Queen Mother of the West, Xiwangmu, who rides above on a phoenix with her attendant, the reverse carved with further Immortals holding tribute gifts, with a wood stand, 32cm. (2)

Compare a closely related bamboo 'Immortals' mountain of similar size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the museum’s exhibition A Garland of Treasures: Masterpieces of Precious Crafts in the Museum Collection, no. III-34; and another in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Chen Xiejun, Shanghai Museum, pl. 326. See also a larger related example from the Avery Brundage collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, accession no. B62M85. For further examples, see also L Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part I, pp.528-533.

十八/十九世紀 竹雕西王母壽辰山子