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A KESI SUMMER ‘DRAGON’ ROBE, JIFU A LARGE ‘FIVE-DRAGON’ SILK CARPET FOR THE HALL OF
19th century PROTECTING HARMONY
The blue kesi worked with the prescribed nine five-clawed dragons, Circa 1900
each side with a full-faced dragon coiling around the ‘flaming pearl’, all The rectangular field woven in multi-coloured silk with five dragons
set amidst bright ruyi clouds, ‘precious objects’, shou characters, bats contesting flaming pearls, enclosed on all sides by a band of ruyi
and cranes, above a terrestrial diagram and a lishui stripe separated by clouds above a lishui border, woven at one end with the three-
further clouds, the same decoration repeated on the border, collar and character inscription ‘Baohe Dian’ (Hall of Protecting Harmony).
horsehoof cuffs. 237cm (93 2/8in) long x 154cm (60 5/8in) wide
201cm (79 1/8in) wide

£2,000 - 3,000 £8,000 - 12,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000 CNY69,000 - 100,000

十九世紀 緙絲湖藍地九龍紋吉服袍 約1900年 「保和殿」五龍戲珠紋地毯

Provenance: Christie’s London, 6 July 1989, lot 87
A European private collection

來源： 1989年7月6日於倫敦佳士得拍賣，拍品87號
歐洲私人收藏

258 | BONHAMS Completed in the 15th century, Baohe Dian is located southeast of
the Forbidden City. During the Ming period, the emperor wore his
ceremonial outfit in this hall before attending a grand ritual, while in
Qing times, the hall also served as a temporary residence for the
Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors but also as the venue where the highest
of the three levels of Imperial examinations took place, and audience
and banquet hall where high-profile political figures were entertained.
See Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the creation
of a political space, Chicago, 2005. Compare with a similar silk carpet,
decorated with five dragons, circa 1900, which sold at Christie’s New
York, 17 March 2017, lot 631.

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please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.