17TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE SET OF FOUR KESI CHAIR COVERS
17TH CENTURY
Now mounted as a four-panel screen; each panel is finely woven in blue, red, yellow, green and gold threads in the upper section with a crane perched atop rockwork amidst fruiting peaches, or peaches and pomegranates, and beneath a smaller crane in flight. Below, is a large peony sprig set between ribbon-tied auspicious emblems, and at the bottom are two smaller cranes confronted above a wave and rock border.
Each panel 63½ x 19 1/8 in. (161.3 x 48.5 cm.); screen 67¾ x 88 in. (172 cm. x 223.5 cm.) overall

Lot Essay

As with the present panels, kesi chair panels often include cranes, as well as clouds and a band of waves and rocks as part of the decoration. The style of decoration and the color schemes are also consistent. See the kesi chair panel woven with the above elements, as well as a lantern roundel and an ogival dragon panel, dated late 17th century, illustrated by Robert D. Jacobsen, Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. II, 2000, pp. 890-91, no. 438.

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