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The immortal Magu with a crane

  • Description

    Magu is a female immortal related to longevity in Chinese mythology. It is said that she looks young and pretty even though she has seen the sea become land three times, a concept which signals the passage of time. Here she is depicted as a Tang dynasty figure, although she is painted in a sweeping calligraphic style rather than in the fine conventions of Tang figure painting.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Nanjing (place of creation)
    Date
    1986
    Artist/maker
    Xu Lele (born 1955) (artist)
    Xu Lele (born 1955) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 101 x 60.5 x 2.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 68 x 45.5 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
    Accession no.
    EA1995.268
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 104 on p. 77, p. 9, illus. p. 76 fig. 104

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    • currently in research collection

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