A `BAT AND FRET-WORK` KANG CARPET

Lot 147
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ID 1404790
Lot 147 | A 'BAT AND FRET-WORK' KANG CARPET
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£ 50 000 – 70 000
A 'BAT AND FRET-WORK' KANG CARPET
NINGXIA, NORTH CHINA, QING DYNASTY, LAST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Localised areas of light wear and corrosion with intermittent areas of associated repiling and restoration, dark brown outer stripe rewoven
10ft.7in. x 9ft.1in. (328cm. x 279cm.)




Provenance

Frank Michaelian, New York
Anon. sale, Edelmann Galleries, New York, 14 June 1980, lot 115 from where purchased
Thence by descent



Literature

HALI, Issue 3, 1980, p.161



Exhibited

Glanz der Himmelssöhne: Kaiserliche Teppiche aus China 1400–1750, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, 2005-2006, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (Michael Franses & Hans König, London, 2005, p.127, pl.43)
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