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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gckimm, post: 10275702, member: 83519&quot;]This painting is entitled &quot;The Crowd of Immortals Wishes Long Life&quot; and depicts at least some of the Eight Immortals along with the God of Longevity (the old man riding the crane in the center.&nbsp; Sorry, the immortal with the hat with &quot;wings&quot; is Cao Guojiu; Zhong Kui is fatter and has a bushy beard. According to the inscription, the painting was a birthday gift from the husband of one sister to the husband of another sister, that is, between two brothers-in-law. The painting has a date.&nbsp; What helps to pinpoint the year is that the recipient of the scroll is addressed by a title (太守) indicating that he is an imperial official, the prefect of a prefecture.&nbsp; Since imperial titles were no longer used after the Chinese Republic was established in 1912, I think the best guess for year is 1898.&nbsp; The scroll has no artist signature or seal. It just says that the gift giver wrote the inscription.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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