Bonhams 1793 : A woven silk rectangular hanging carpet depicting the Summer Palace Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty
Finely woven in muted shades of blue, rust-orange, green and beige, the central panel showing a scene of the Summer Palace at Beijing including Longevity Hill behind a palace courtyard and the distinctive paddle steamer sailing across the Kunming Lake in the foreground, all surrounded by a border containing pairs of confronted stylised chilong bordered with key-fret and a wide band with groups of precious objects at the edges, the top border containing the characters Wan shou shan quan jing (A View of Longevity Hill). 307cm high x 242cm wide(120¾in high x 95¼in wide)

Estimate:

£20,000 - 30,000
HK$ 240,000 - 350,000
CNY 190,000 - 280,000

Footnotes

Provenance: an Italian private collection

清絹織頤和園景地毯「萬壽山全景」楷書款

來源：意大利私人收藏

Compare a related carpet also with a scene of the Summer Palace including the Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake, but viewed from a different side, illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: Carpets in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2010, pp.220-225.