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A RARE AND LARGE IMPERIAL ‘LOTUS’
VELVET DAIS COVER
Yongzheng
The cover consisting of three joined panels of cut
and uncut silk velvet, centred with a large orange
lotus bloom surrounded by six smaller blooms, all
outlined in silvery-grey thread on a dense ground
of curly-leafed scroll designs in gilt metal-wrapped
thread on a honey-coloured cut-pile background,
enclosed within a triple border of geometric fretwork,
meandering lotus scroll and key-fret.
350cm (137 6/8in) x 190cm (74 7/8in).

£60,000 - 80,000
CNY530,000 - 710,000

清雍正 金絲地絲絨纏枝菊紋炕罩

Provenance: The Textile Gallery, London, 1982
Lady Schiennen, Kent, England
Christopher Bruckner Asian Art Gallery, London, 2007
A European private collection

Published and Illustrated: Christopher Bruckner,
Chinese Imperial Patronage: Treasures from Temples
and Palaces, London, 2005, no.33.
來源：英國倫敦，The Textile Gallery，1982年
英國肯特郡，Schiennen夫人舊藏
英國倫敦，Christopher Bruckner Asian Art
Gallery，2007年
歐洲私人收藏

出版著錄：英國倫敦，Christopher Bruckner，
《Chinese Imperial Patronage: Treasures from
Temples and Palaces》，2005年，編號33

Sumptuous covers made of delicate silk velvet, such as the present The rich honey-coloured ground and the interlocking key-fret designs
example, are extremely rare and were produced in limited quantities for ending with dragon heads, which the present example displays,
the imperial court in workshops based in Fujian and Jiangsu Provinces. appear to be features characterising the earliest production of silk
Constructed of three silk-velvet panels which were joined together after velvet carpets in China, datable to late 17th/early 18th century.
weaving, this lavish carpet was probably meant to cover important See a honey-ground silk velvet carpet, late 17th/early 18th century,
furniture, such as the kang platform of an imperial residence that was decorated with blossoming lotus and similar interlocking designs
heated by braziers and supported other furniture. ending with dragon heads, from the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated
by J.Vollmer, Clothed to Rule the Universe. Ming to Qing Dynasty
Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2000, pl.30, pp.47.

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