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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
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A NINGXIA CARPET
WEST CHINA, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
The carpet is woven with a central roundel of a Buddhist lion and three cubs reserved on a diaper ground
with four shaped panels enclosing leafy fower blossoms in each corner, all within alternating borders of
fower scroll and key-fret.
Approximately 143æ x 99æ in. (368 cm. x 251 cm.)
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE
The Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware; Northeast Auctions, 2-3 Novermber 1996, lot 1027.
Sotheby’s New York, 27 September 2000, lot 78.
This carpet exhibits salient characteristics of 18th century Chinese weavings with its precise drawing,
composition, coloring and structure. The design of a Buddhist lion on a ‘grains of rice’ feld is quite rare,
with only four others from this period known (see Franses, Michael and Watherhouse, Rupert, eds.,
Classical Chinese Carpets I, London, 2000, p. 89).
清十八世紀下半葉 寧夏黃地團獅紋毯
(detail)
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