A SILK AND GILDED METALLIC THREAD CARPET
19TH CENTURY
Woven with a central full-frontal dragon, bordered at opposite ends by pairs of confronted dragons contesting flaming pearls flanked by beribboned 'precious objects', all reserved on a dense ground of orange and golden-yellow cloud whorls, framed by a thin dotted blue inner band within a wider flowerhead band bordered by a plain golden-brown outer band, all picked out in attractive shades of yellow, orange, deep blue, cream, green and ochre, with five character hallmark reading Qianqing Gong Yuyong which may be translated as "For use in the Palace of Heavenly Purity", some staining to lower right corner--87½ x 49 in. (220.2 X 124.5cm.)
A SILK AND GILDED METALLIC THREAD CARPET
19TH CENTURY
Woven with a central full-frontal dragon, bordered at opposite ends by pairs of confronted dragons contesting flaming pearls flanked by beribboned 'precious objects', all reserved on a dense ground of orange and golden-yellow cloud whorls, framed by a thin dotted blue inner band within a wider flowerhead band bordered by a plain golden-brown outer band, all picked out in attractive shades of yellow, orange, deep blue, cream, green and ochre, with five character hallmark reading Qianqing Gong Yuyong which may be translated as "For use in the Palace of Heavenly Purity", some staining to lower right corner--87½ x 49 in. (220.2 X 124.5cm.)
