Description
Of flattened rectangular form painted inside with two tigers on one side and a scene from the «Romance of the Three Kingdoms» on the other under an inscription which reads «The Peach Garden Oath, painted by Zhang Guangqing in 1966».
This subject «The Peach Garden Oath» illustrates an event in chapter one «The Yellow turban Rebellion» from the historical novel «Romance of the Three Kingdoms» in which Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took an oath of fraternity in a ceremony amid peach blossom trees and became sworn brothers from then on.
- Period
- 1966
- Height
- 6,5
- Provenance
- Private Collection, England.
