Catalogue Description:
Painting of a local Korean god of good fortune (in Japan, Hotei). Depicted with brush stroke and washes of ink on paper.
Signed: "the ancient drunkard" with the seal of Kim Myoung-Kuk, a court painter of the early 17th century.
Accompanied by a hanging scroll of mounted calligraphy, probably originally associated with the picture (at present writing impossible to establish).
Condition: some flaws and imperfections-no major repainting.
