Lot 231
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A NINGXIA CARPET
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A NINGXIA CARPET

NORTH CHINA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

Details
A NINGXIA CARPET
NORTH CHINA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Areas of wear and corrosion, minor restorations and repiling, selvages replaced
8ft.10in. x 7ft.2in. (268cm. x 218cm.)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Sale room notice
This carpet was purchased in Paris in 1970 from Madame Arpels, from the famous jewellers Van Cleef & Arpels.

Lot Essay

A comparable carpet with an overall flowering peony design and outer swastika stripe but with a different inner stripe was exhibited recently in Cologne, (Hans König and Michael Franses, Glanz der Himmerlssöhne Kaiserliche Teppiche aus China 1400-1750, Exhibition catalogue, London, 2005, pp.76-77, pl.12).

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