This banner of Saint Anthony might have been used in a Christian community in Asia. The impressive scale of this figure and of St Sebastian, also in the V&A, is not so unusual in China, for equally large depictions of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist immortals exist. The material culture of Christianity chimed with Chinese expectations of what pictures were for in another way too. They both laid stress on images relevant to specific occasions, whether Chinese festivals, such as the New Year, or festival of the Christian liturgical year.