A TAPERED NINGXIA PILLAR RUG
A TAPERED NINGXIA PILLAR RUG

WEST CHINA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A TAPERED NINGXIA PILLAR RUG
WEST CHINA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rug has an ochre field with a scrolling dragon and cloud forms above a polychrome wave and cloud border.
Approximately 10 ft. 3 in. x 5 ft. 8 in. at the widest point (312 cm. x 173 cm.)
来源
Te-Chun Wang Collection, Beijing, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
Sandra Whitman, San Francisco.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

拍品专文

It is generally believed that a sponsor or a sponsoring group gifted pillar and banner rugs, often in pairs, to temples for festival days. The unusual tapered form of this pillar rug indicates that it was given to a specific temple for a specific pillar and would have wrapped around the pillar so that the dragon form would spiral continuously up the pillar. A nearly identical tapered pillar rug, and possibly the pair to this rug, was exhibited at Birdshake's Antique Oriental Rug Gallery, San Francisco, 17 June-3 August, 1974, no. 7.

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