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depicting Guandi attended by Zhou Cang wielding a halberd, with a short poem inscribed in ink at the top center, against a later-added gilt ground Height of frame 29? in., 75.2 cm; Width 21 in., 53.3 cm
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Collection of Dr. Richard Stockton, Father Arsenius (1929-2011), acquired in China in the 1950s, bequeathed to the Holy Transfi guration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Based in Shanghai in the Ming dynasty, the Gu family was renowned for its embroidery work and use of exceptionally fi ne threads, innovating new techniques and stitches for xiuhua, ‘embroidered paintings’ such as the present example. Their work was acclaimed by late Ming scholars including Dong Qichang (1555-1636), who wrote a colophon on the album ‘Flowers and Fishes’ (1641) by Han Ximeng, a member of the Gu family.