NORTH CHINA, 18TH CENTURY

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A NINGXIA CARPET
North China, 18th century
The soft mandarin-orange field with an overall lattice of hooked panels containing individual floral sprays and phoenix motifs, in a sandy brown angular floral spray and Chinese lotus flower border between narrow plain stripes, broad mushroom-brown outer stripe, short original kilim strip at both ends, knotted fringes at one end, natural corrosion in some colours, small scattered areas of repiling throughout, outer stripe completely repiled
14ft.1in. x 14ft.8in. (429cm. x 446cm.)

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拍品专文

A carpet with comparable field is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Dimand, M. and Mailey, J.: Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, no.199, p.338 and fig.268). The field panels in the present carpet are more spacious and contain a variety of different motifs.

The same border of stylised floral sprays and Chinese lotus flowers can be found on the Beijing Qing dynasty "hundred antiques" carpet, attributed to the first half of the 18th century, (Dickinson, Gray: "The hundred antiques", in Franses, Michael (ed.):Classical Chinese Carpets, London, 2000, pl.24)