16th Oct, 2021 10:00

TWO-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism

 
  Lot 509
 

509

AN EMBROIDERED SILK ‘DRAGON’ WALL HANGING, QING DYNASTY
清代雲龍戲珠刺綉挂屏

Sold for €1,138

including Buyer's Premium


Lot details

China, 19th century. Finely worked in white, blue, yellow, and red silk and silver thread with a central roundel of a front-facing five-clawed dragon coiled around a flaming pearl amid scrolling clouds and above crashing waves and lishui stripe.

Provenance: Deaccession from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, old label ‘A.A.I. 06 117’ to back. The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum located at Newfields, a 152-acre campus near downtown Indianapolis. The museum has a substantial Asian art collection, with more than 5,000 pieces spanning 4,000 years.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and few loose threads, the edges with minuscule losses.

Dimensions: Size 76 x 73 cm

The corners each with a Shou character within a design of key-fret and scrolling vines, all on a burgundy silk ground. Painted to the reverse in the lower left corner with a Chinese inscription of later date.

Auction result comparison: Compare a related but larger embroidered wall hanging, also dated to the late 19th century and with a very similar dragon, at Christie’s London in Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles Part I on 4 November 2014, lot 124, sold for GBP 6,250.

清代雲龍戲珠刺綉挂屏
中國,十九世紀,分別使用白、藍、黃和紅色等多色絲綫精心綉製五爪雲龍戲珠紋,四周吉祥雲紋,龍下方海水江崖紋。

來源:美國 Indianapolis Museum of Art美術館退出館藏, 背面有舊時藏品編號 ’A.A.I. 06 117’ 。The Indianapolis Museum of Art 是一座百科全書式藝術博物館,位於印第安納波利斯市中心Newfields附近,佔地 152 英畝。 該博物館收藏了大量亞洲藝術藏品,擁有跨越 4,000 年的 5,000 多件藏品。
品相:品相良好,輕微磨損,局部絲綫鬆動,邊緣微小損失。

尺寸:76 x 73 厘米

四角各有一個 " "字,飾有雷紋和捲曲的藤蔓,均以酒紅色絲綢為底。背面左下角後來被繪有幾個中文字。

拍賣結果比較:一件相近的但更大的壁挂,同樣為十九世紀末,相似龍紋,見倫敦佳士得Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles Part I,2014年11月4日,lot 124,售價GBP 6,250。

 

China, 19th century. Finely worked in white, blue, yellow, and red silk and silver thread with a central roundel of a front-facing five-clawed dragon coiled around a flaming pearl amid scrolling clouds and above crashing waves and lishui stripe.

Provenance: Deaccession from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, old label ‘A.A.I. 06 117’ to back. The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum located at Newfields, a 152-acre campus near downtown Indianapolis. The museum has a substantial Asian art collection, with more than 5,000 pieces spanning 4,000 years.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and few loose threads, the edges with minuscule losses.

Dimensions: Size 76 x 73 cm

The corners each with a Shou character within a design of key-fret and scrolling vines, all on a burgundy silk ground. Painted to the reverse in the lower left corner with a Chinese inscription of later date.

Auction result comparison: Compare a related but larger embroidered wall hanging, also dated to the late 19th century and with a very similar dragon, at Christie’s London in Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles Part I on 4 November 2014, lot 124, sold for GBP 6,250.

清代雲龍戲珠刺綉挂屏
中國,十九世紀,分別使用白、藍、黃和紅色等多色絲綫精心綉製五爪雲龍戲珠紋,四周吉祥雲紋,龍下方海水江崖紋。

來源:美國 Indianapolis Museum of Art美術館退出館藏, 背面有舊時藏品編號 ’A.A.I. 06 117’ 。The Indianapolis Museum of Art 是一座百科全書式藝術博物館,位於印第安納波利斯市中心Newfields附近,佔地 152 英畝。 該博物館收藏了大量亞洲藝術藏品,擁有跨越 4,000 年的 5,000 多件藏品。
品相:品相良好,輕微磨損,局部絲綫鬆動,邊緣微小損失。

尺寸:76 x 73 厘米

四角各有一個 " "字,飾有雷紋和捲曲的藤蔓,均以酒紅色絲綢為底。背面左下角後來被繪有幾個中文字。

拍賣結果比較:一件相近的但更大的壁挂,同樣為十九世紀末,相似龍紋,見倫敦佳士得Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles Part I,2014年11月4日,lot 124,售價GBP 6,250。

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