拍品專文
Runners of this sort were generally made in Ning-hsia for Buddhist monasteries. Reputedly, each section of the design was intended to be used as a meditation mat for a monk.
細節
A NING-HSIA MEDITATION RUNNER
WEST CHINA, CIRCA 1800
Having golden camel rectangular reserves each containing deep brown swastika centered rosettes and divided by thin deep brown lines all within a golden camel and deep brown swastika maze-work border interspersed with buff and deep brown half floral motifs and narrow cream and deep brown pearl inner border all flanked by a similar fully bordered square mat at one end, fragmentary on upper end, repiled pinks, other areas of repiling to field, areas of wear especially to lower end
Approximately 16ft.6in. x 2ft.3in. (502cm. x 69cm.)
Warp: ivory cotton Z3S, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots ivory cotton Z4, undulating
Pile: wool, Z2-4S, asymmetrical open to the left, H2.3 x V1.5/cm.
Sides: three additional warps, extra ivory wool yarn Z2 flat woven around these and sometimes the outermost knotted warp, the main weft passes over one of the extra warps
Lower end: four rows flatweave with ivory cotton Z3-4, uncut fringes twisted together Z
WEST CHINA, CIRCA 1800
Having golden camel rectangular reserves each containing deep brown swastika centered rosettes and divided by thin deep brown lines all within a golden camel and deep brown swastika maze-work border interspersed with buff and deep brown half floral motifs and narrow cream and deep brown pearl inner border all flanked by a similar fully bordered square mat at one end, fragmentary on upper end, repiled pinks, other areas of repiling to field, areas of wear especially to lower end
Approximately 16ft.6in. x 2ft.3in. (502cm. x 69cm.)
Warp: ivory cotton Z3S, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots ivory cotton Z4, undulating
Pile: wool, Z2-4S, asymmetrical open to the left, H2.3 x V1.5/cm.
Sides: three additional warps, extra ivory wool yarn Z2 flat woven around these and sometimes the outermost knotted warp, the main weft passes over one of the extra warps
Lower end: four rows flatweave with ivory cotton Z3-4, uncut fringes twisted together Z
來源
von Lederdtege
Acquired from above 5 November 1954 as a "Chinalaufer" for DM1,100
Acquired from above 5 November 1954 as a "Chinalaufer" for DM1,100
出版
Bernheimer, Otto: Alte Teppice des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts der Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.101