Eight-panel Folding Screen, Yojiyeondo

Description:

Eight-panel Folding Screen, Yojiyeondo, Korea, 19th century, depicting the Banquet of Seowangmo, Queen Mother of the West, with immortals arriving at her palace with peach garden, ink, color, and gold on silk, overall 62 7/8 x 158 1/2, each panel wd. 19 3/8 to 20 in.
Estimate $5,000-7,000

multiple tears, traces of repairs, losses of painted details, spotty mildew in progress in multiple areas, pencil marks to the far right corner, silk backing of far right panel partially ripped off, multiple tears to far left panel back.


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