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AN EXTREMELY WELL-PRESERVED 'PHOENIX' KESI SILK HANGING, 17TH CENTURY
奥地利
04月16日 下午5点 开拍 /13天23小时
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China. Exquisitely woven in the finest possible silk with bright shades of apple and emerald green, iron red, mustard-yellow, sapphire and lapis blue, and gold threads against a royal or midnight blue silk ground.Depicting a majestic phoenix beside a peony blossom, the bird exquisitely detailed with a ruyi crest and long tasseled tail feathers, with two of the sanduo abundances, peaches and pomegranate, growing on leafy stems. All within a gold-thread brocade frame with neatly arranged lotus tendrils, dating from the 19th century.Provenance: From the descendant of a Canadian diplomat in China, who acquired these pieces in situ during the early 20th century. A noted family collection of textiles and rugs, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, since the 1980s, acquired from the above. Condition: Excellent condition with only minor wear and few irrelevant weaving irregularities. The work is likely a fragment from a once much larger panel, set within a silk frame dating from the 19th century. The colors and gold-thread are both unusually crisp and fresh.Dimensions: Image size 132.5 x 82.5 cm, Size incl. frame 149.5 x 100 cmMounted on a gold brocade frame decorated with lotus scroll and with an olive-green silk backing.Kesi, which means 'cut silk', derives from the visual illusion of cut threads that is created by distinct, unblended areas of color, as the weft threads are woven into each color and then cut. The earliest surviving examples of kesi tapestries date to the Tang dynasty (618-907), although the technique was already used earlier in wool and became widely applied only during the Song dynasty (1127-1379). The fragment of a kesi tapestry was recovered in a tomb of a man and his wife in Dulan, Qinghai province, who died in 633 and 688 respectively, and another also excavated in Dulan, was included in the exhibition “China, Dawn of a Golden Age” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005, cat. no. 245. During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), kesi panels enjoyed a rise in popularity and thrived under the Qing emperors.During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, official weaving workshops were established both in the palace and in the cities of Jiangning, Suzhou and Hangzhou, in order to cater to the court's increasing demand for palace and temple furnishings, clothing and presentation silks for civil and military officials. Specialized centers of production soon developed around this area, such as the city of Wenzhou, Zhenjiang province, which became particularly famous for its luxurious kesi tapestries.Literature comparison:Compare a related 'phoenix' kesi tapestry weaving with colored silks and gold wrapped threads, dated 17th century, 198.1 cm tall, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number T.844-1919, where the curators note that “[a] similar hanging is found in the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet. During the Ming period, textiles were exchanged between the Ming court and Tibet as diplomatic gifts. Hangings such as this were possibly intended for such exchanges.”Auction result comparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 2001, lot 727Price: HKD 235,000 or approx. EUR 40,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A superb 'double-phoenix' kesi, late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related design and subject with almost identically executed wings and faces of the phoenix, peaches, and peony blossoms. Note the size (182.8 x 198 cm).

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