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Lot 333W
A woven silk rectangular hanging carpet depicting the Summer Palace Qing Dynasty
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£20,000 - £30,000
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A woven silk rectangular hanging carpet depicting the Summer Palace
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)
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)
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.


