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7129 Textiles

7130 Property from Another Owner

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A large rectangular cut and uncut silk velvet
kang carpet
19th century
Woven in three vertically joined sections with peach bloom red,
off-white, and gilt-wrapped threads on a midnight blue ground to
form a rectangular panel centered with a large medallion of a flower
blossom and intertwined scrolling tendrils, flanked symmetrically by
large peony flower heads surrounded by leaf scrolls, each corner
further ornamented with a stylized chilong, bordered with three bands
of squared scrolls, lotus and leaf scrolls, and confronting dragons
chasing flaming pearls; with yellow cotton backing.
138 x 74in (350.2 x 188cm)
$4,000 - 6,000

Provenance
Bonhams, San Francisco, sale 21033, 17 December 2013, lot 8241

Property from a Sonoma County collection

7130
A massive polychrome-woven brocade silk kang
cover
Late Qing/Republic period
Constructed from three sections joined vertically, woven in shades of
red and gray-green with metallic-wrapped thread highlights on a deep
blue ground forming a field centered with a massive composite lotus
flower surrounded by leafy stems with smaller blooms and a bat at
each corner, the border patterns including further lotus and leaf scrolls
above a wanzi meander; finished with blue cotton backing.
125 1/2 x 71 1/2in (319 x 182cm)
$4,000 - 6,000

Property from a private Las Vegas collection

7131
A rectangular woven silk brocade velvet kang cover
Late Qing/Republic period
Woven in two long sections and joined at the middle to create a
central medallion of four interlaced peony flowers with trailing leafy
tendrils woven in deep magenta, gray-blue and silvery metallic threads
on the dark mustard yellow velvet ground that continue in the narrow
band of dissolved dragons formed by squared C-scrolls and the larger
band along the edges filled with rampant dragons chasing flaming
pearls; the reverse lined with dark yellow cotton.
83 x 49in (211 x 124.5cm)
$3,000 - 4,000