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拍品专文
It is highly probable that the carpet from which this fragment came was woven in the same Imperial Beijing carpet workshops as the large Wanli palace carpets, such as the carpet sold at Christie’s New York, 11 December 2014, lot 8 and the Imperial 'Dragon' Throne carpet in Christie's Paris, 23 November 2021, lot 224. The present carpet was probably intended for use in one of the Imperial palaces and although we cannot get any sense of what the field design might have been, what is unmistakable from the scale of the border and the elegance of the design is that this would have been a very impressive carpet indeed. The design of the main border is an attractive lattice made up of a repeating pattern of four joined cloud bands and is a design found in Wanli carpets and in wall decoration in the Palace Museum, Beijing. Similarly, the stripe of meandering alternating peonies is found in the borders of a number of carpets in the Palace Museum collection (Liu Baojian and Yuan Hongqi, Carpets in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2010, pp. 34, 48, 55, 58). In the note accompanying the present lot in Glanz der Himmelssohne, Kaiserliche Teppiche Aus China 1400-1750 the author states that another border fragment from the same carpet as the present lot is in a private collection in Lugano (Michael Franses and Hans König, ibid., London, 2005, pl.52, p.68).
Avery Brundage (1887-1975) was a renowned Chicago industrialist and the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee. He started to collect Asian art in 1939, having been inspired by an exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy London, and over the course of thirty five years amassed one of the finest private collections of Asian art. In 1959 Brundage promised part of his collection to the City of San Francisco if they would build a museum to house it. The museum was constructed as an additional wing of the de Young Museum and opened in 1966. By the end of his life Brundage had donated nearly 8,000 Asian art objects to the City of San Francisco—all housed at the Asian Art Museum. In 2003 the Asian Art Museum moved to its own building and the collection stands at more than 17,000 objects, making it the largest museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia.
Avery Brundage (1887-1975) was a renowned Chicago industrialist and the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee. He started to collect Asian art in 1939, having been inspired by an exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy London, and over the course of thirty five years amassed one of the finest private collections of Asian art. In 1959 Brundage promised part of his collection to the City of San Francisco if they would build a museum to house it. The museum was constructed as an additional wing of the de Young Museum and opened in 1966. By the end of his life Brundage had donated nearly 8,000 Asian art objects to the City of San Francisco—all housed at the Asian Art Museum. In 2003 the Asian Art Museum moved to its own building and the collection stands at more than 17,000 objects, making it the largest museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia.