A MASSIVE IMPERIAL YELLOW-GROUND NINGXIA CARPET

细节

A MASSIVE IMPERIAL YELLOW-GROUND NINGXIA CARPET
CHUXIUGONG MARK, TONGZHI/GUANGXU

Woven in the central field with nine leaping, five-clawed dragons ing pearls and cloud-scrolls, surrounded by a border of bats in flight grasping lingzhi springs, with further striding dragons as an outer border within single lines, picked out in muted shades of golden-amber, beige and white tone reserved on a pale honey ground, woven with a four-character hall name at the top Chixiugong Yong, which may be translated for use in the Hall of Accumulative Elegance
120 1/2 x 97 1/2 in. (306 x 248 cm.)

拍品专文

Compare with two related carpets sold in our New York Rooms, both with nine five-clawed dragons reserved on a yellow ground, the first with the hall name Taihe Dian Beiyong (For use in the Hall of Supreme Harmony), 2 December 1993, lot 131; the other from the collection of Eberhard Baron von Werthern, with the hall name Wu Ying Dian Beiyong, (For use in the Hall of Military Prowess), 1 December 1994, lot 274.

The Chuxiugong Hall in the Forbidden city is the Hall where Dowager Empress Cixi resided for several years, during the period around 1856 and again in 1895. Two dishes in this sale series were ordered specifically for placement in this Hall, these are included as lots 66 and 784.

(US$20,000-25,000)