拍品 2029
  • 2029

AN IMPERIAL 'DRAGON' TEXTILE QING DYNASTY, LATE 17TH CENTURY

估價
400,000 - 600,000 HKD
招標截止

描述

the rectangular embroidery featuring a powerful four-clawed golden dragon with a sinuous body rising leaping above crashing waves to grab a partially visible 'flaming pearl', surrounded by colourful clouds, all on a rich blue silk ground, the dragon's body finely articulated in dense couched gold threads

來源

A Hong Kong Private Collection, late 1980s.
John Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1990.
An English Private Collection, 1994-2005.
John Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2007.

展覽

John Eskenazi, Chinese Silk Textiles from 14th -18th Century, Milan, February - March 1995.

 

出版

Hali, issue 79, February / March 1995, pp. 58-59.

Condition

Along the edges, there are 7 small holes that have been patched - the smallest 1 cm x 1cm, the largest 10 cm x 10 cm. A few of the patches have later added silk floss embroidery that matches the overall design. The colours are still very stong, only slightly muted. The gold couched threads have some loose areas that have been reinforced. The hole textile has been mounted on stretched canvas.
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拍品資料及來源

Dynamically composed and sumptuously embroidered, this panel is impressive for its remarkable size and intricate craftsmanship. Compare a hanging of a frontal dragon embroidered on velvet included in the exhibition Heavens' Embroidered Cloths. One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995, cat. no. 9. For an elaborate table frontal embroidered with three similarly rendered dragons, see one exhibited in Weaving China's Past. The Amy S. Clague Collection of Chinese Textiles, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 2000, cat. no. 22.