Signed Tang Yin (1470-1524): Auspicious depition with the demon queller Zhong Kui

Description:

China, 17th/18th c.
99,5 x 55,5 cm
Depiction of figures with wishes for happiness. Ink and colour on silk, mounted as a hanging scroll, partly painted in gold. Fine painting in elegant colours. Titled: "Auspicious depition" (Ji Qing Tu). Sign. zhengde yuannian chun sanyue mo wu daozi fa jingchang tang yin (painted by Tang Yin in Jinchang in the style of Wu Daozi in the Chinese 3rd month of spring in the 1st year of the Zhengde period [1506]) with two seals tang yin and bohu. The domestic scene shows the demon hunter sitting on a daybed (Kang), entertaining his sister's young son by playing music on a sound stone. As usual, he is shown with a wild beard, his robe is loose, he has put his cap behind him and is just taking off his second shoe with his left hand. Behind him, in front of the opening of a moon window through which flying swallows can be seen, stands a vase with mallows and pomegranates. The beautiful sister is sitting in elegantly flowing garments on a porcelain stool in front of a folding screen with roaring waves sewing a red robe. She looks at a servant carrying the demon hunter's wrapped sword standing in front of a sack with captured demons peeking out of the holes.
Süd German private collection, by repute acquired at Galerie Horstmann, Munich, acquired in the 1980s
Tang Yin (1470-1524) surnamed Bohu alias liuru jushi from the Xuxian county, is one of the four most important painters of the Ming period, famous for his depictions of landscapes and figures - Signs of age, part. age dam., minor repaired