Page 58 - 2020 September Fine Chinese Paintings and Works of Art, Bonham NYC

PROPERTY OF MARTIN COHEN, NEW YORK CITY
AND SARASOTA, FLORIDA
170
RARE MASSIVE KESI AND CUT VELVET HANGING BANNER
Early Qing dynasty elements This sublime hanging banner is an assemblage of numerous fine
The central panel of cut velvet with a pair of ascending and sections of early Qing dynasty Chinese textiles. The fabrics were likely
descending dragons amid clouds and bordered with scrolling lotus, joined to be hung in a Buddhist temple setting, the luxurious fabrics
with five joined early 18th century kesi panels above and below the originally received by the temple as donations from wealthy patrons.
18th century cut velvet panel, all surrounded by a late 17th/early 18th The cut velvet central element is a unusual survivor, given its large size.
century pale blue silk embroidered border sewn with dragons, mythical The inner kesi surround were likely taken from chair covers, and the
beasts and auspicious imagery, with a second exterior border in blue ground embroidered border perhaps for a bed cover.
brocade weave silk.
144 x 87 1/2in (366 x 222cm)

$10,000 - 15,000
清 緙絲及漳絨繡龍紋掛幅

Provenance
Dreweatts 1759 London, 17 May 2014, lot 100

來源
倫敦Dreweatts 1759，2014年5月17日，拍品編號100

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