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Chinese Rugs: Kansu Carpet C. 1800 Sotheby's lot 102

Chinese Rugs: Kansu Carpet C. 1800 Sotheby's lot 102 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.

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.

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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.

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