Maruyama Okyo

Yang Guifei
Edo period (1615-1868), dated 1794
Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, depicting the Chinese beauty seated at a red-lacquer table by blossoming peonies and a willow, her pale skin set off against her luxuriously decorated robes, her hair gathered up on top of her head under a phoenix crown, the fan in her left decorated with a landscape and sailing vessel, dated Kinoe-tora chuto utsusu (Drawn in midwinter 1794), signed Okyo and sealed Okyo no in
With a wood tomobako storage box inscribed on the inside of the lid Okyo hitsu shinseki soinai, (Genuine work by Okyo), dated Mizunoe-tatsu shoto (early winter, 1832), signed Seishukan Oritsu sho and sealed Oritsu, and with additional attestation dated and signed Maruyama Oshin tei, and sealed Oshin no in
53 1/4 x 27 3/8in (135.3 x 69.5cm)
Acquired in the 1960s and thence by descent to the present owner