A SILK AND GILDED METALLIC THREAD CARPET

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A SILK AND GILDED METALLIC THREAD CARPET
19TH CENTURY

Woven with a central full-frontal dragon, bordered at opposite ends by pairs of confronted dragons contesting flaming pearls flanked by beribboned 'precious objects', all reserved on a dense ground of orange and golden-yellow cloud whorls, framed by a thin dotted blue inner band within a wider flowerhead band bordered by a plain golden-brown outer band, all picked out in attractive shades of yellow, orange, deep blue, cream, green and ochre, with five character hallmark reading Qianqing Gong Yuyong which may be translated as "For use in the Palace of Heavenly Purity", some staining to lower right corner--87½ x 49 in. (220.2 X 124.5cm.)

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The Qianqing Gong, or Palace of Heavenly Purity, the first of the Three Rear Halls, formerly contained the sleeping chambers of Ming emperors. During the Qing Dynasty, however, emperors began to manage state affairs from the Qianqing Gong. The Palace was eventually turned into a formal living room and offices where emperors summoned subordinates for consultation, received foreign envoys, as well as gave banquets for family members, relatives and high officials. See Wan-go Weng and Yang Boda, The Palace Museum: Peking, Treasures of the Forbidden City, 1982, p. 50