拍品 1624
1624
A PAIR OF SILK KESI CHAIR COVERS
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PHILIP WOOD, SAN FRANCISCO
A PAIR OF SILK KESI CHAIR COVERS

17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF SILK KESI CHAIR COVERS
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Each finely woven in red, blue, yellow and gold at the top with a crane and the sun amidst clouds, above a writhing five-clawed, front-facing dragon, a roundel of blossoming lotus, and a freize of rockwork and crashing waves, all enclosed by a wan diaper border
64 x 20½ in. (162.6 x 52.1 cm.), framed and glazed (2)

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Embroidered or woven chair covers, such as the present example, would have been draped over chairs to protect them while not in use. Compare the style of weaving to a kesi chair cover dated to the late 17th century from the William E. Colby Collection, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by R.D. Jacobson in Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. II, Minneapolis, 2000, p. 891, no. 438.