Artist: Ning Zhai, Chinese, active late 15th–early 16th century, Daoist Immortal Han Xiangzi with an Attendant, late 15th–early 16th century, Hanging scrol, I, ink and color on silk, without mounting: 63 1/4 × 38 1/8 in. ( × cm), The flute identifies this figure as Han Xiangzi, one of a group of eight quasi-historical immortals who became popular in twelfth-century China as the Daoist religious tradition consolidated and expanded. He is accompanied by a young attendant who holds a type of fungi known as a lingzhi

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