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Sotheby's Auctions » Carpets » lot 102
Sale N07852
A KANSU CARPET, WEST CHINA,
New York 20,000—30,000 USD Session 1
03 Dec 02 10:15 AM
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
59,750 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 10ft. 2in. by 5ft. 9in. (3.10 by
1.75m.)
DESCRIPTION
circa 1800
oxidized browns, foldwear, small reweaves, some
selvages fraying,
Warp: Cotton, Z5S, natural ivory
Weft: Cotton, Z, 4 shoots, natural ivory
Pile: Wool, asymmetrical knot open to the left
Density: 8 horizontal, 8 vertical
Sides: 1 cord of 3 warps overcast in red wool
Ends: warp fringes
Colors: madder red, salmon, blue-green, deep
blue, medium blue, yellow, ivory, walnut.
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, December 15, 1994, lot 128.
Literature
Hali, issue 79, p. 148. Seen on
www.Sothebys.com
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This carpet and the
Kansu carpet offered as lot 31 in this catalogue share an
almost identical border and color palette, however, the
design here is more directly linked to Ming textile
patterns. For examples of
Ming brocades in this pattern, please refer to Ellsworth,
Robert Hatfield, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1970,
endpapers, and Simcox, Jacqueline, Chinese Textiles,
London, 1994, pl. 26. Ms Simcox, ibid., p. 30, notes that
the textile pattern is similar to that of a carpet
depicted in a portrait of the Hungwu emperor, 1368-1398
(see Masterpieces of Chinese Portrait Painting in the
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1971, pl. 38.) Thus,
it appears that the carpet offered here is a continuum of
a long and favored Chinese carpet tradition.
For related examples, please refer to Christie's New
York, November 19, 1985, lot 18; Sotheby's New York, May
31, 1986, lot 69 and Herrmann,
Eberhart, Seltene Orientteppiche VIII, Munich, 1986, pl.
115; and Sotheby's New York, December 12, 1997, lot
51.
For Further Reading:
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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