A NING HSIA RUG

CHINA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A NING HSIA RUG
CHINA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The sandy yellow field with a dense overall design of scrolling blue lotus vine around a central hooked roundel issuing paired dragons' heads, the spandrels similar, in a pale sand border of blue key-pattern between light blue plain stripes, plain outer corroded dark brown stripe, areas of wear and corrosion, ends reduced, one end with restored outer stripe, small scattered other repiling throughout
6ft.10in. x 3ft.10in. (208cm. x 117cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Rippon Boswell & Co., Fruhjahrsauktion, Wiesbaden, 6 May 1989, lot 133.

Literature

Antique Chinese Rugs by the Tiffany Studios, Rutland, Vermont, 1969, pl.XXXII, pp.95-6
HALI 49, February 1990, p.79

Lot Essay

This carpet combines two motifs both well known from Chinese carpets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The dragons are found on a number of pieces such as those published by Volkmann (M.: Alt Orientalische Teppiche: Ausgewählte Stucke deutscher Privatsammlungen, Munich, 1985, nos.116 and 117, pp.266-9), and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dimand, M. anmd Mailey, J.: Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Mseum of Art, New York, 1973, no. 225, p.346 and fig.299). The field design of scrolling lotuses is found dominating a magnificent long rug (Herrmann, E.: Asiatische Teppich und Textilkunst IV, Munich, 1992).

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