A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME FRESCO, MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME FRESCO
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The fresco fragment is painted with a female deity, probably Xiwangmu, wearing a tiara centered with a peacock, and seated in a chariot drawn by a phoenix and traveling over clouds. She is surrounded by all seven female attendants, two holding up peacock feather fans over the head of the deity, one holding a tripod censer and one proffering a tray of peaches. The scene is painted in bright red, green and blue pigments, with details picked out in raised gesso.
49 ½ in. (125.73 cm.) high x 35 in. (88.9 cm.) wide, excluding softwood frame

Provenance

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 4-5 April 1940, lot 253.
Private collection, Connecticut.

VARIOUS PROPERTIES