Skip to main content
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 1
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 2
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 3
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 4
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 5
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 6
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 7
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 8
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 9
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 10
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 11
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 12
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 13
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 14
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 15
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 16
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 17
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 18
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 19
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 20
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 21
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 22
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 23
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 24
Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner Early Qing dynasty elements image 25
Lot 170

Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner
Early Qing dynasty elements

21 September 2020, 12:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$12,575 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

Rare Massive Kesi and cut velvet hanging banner

Early Qing dynasty elements
The central panel of cut velvet with a pair of ascending and descending dragons amid clouds and bordered with scrolling lotus, with five joined early 18th century kesi panels above and below the 18th century cut velvet panel, all surrounded by a late 17th/early 18th century pale blue silk embroidered border sewn with dragons, mythical beasts and auspicious imagery, with a second exterior border in brocade weave silk.
144 x 87 1/2in (366 x 222cm)

Footnotes

清 緙絲及漳絨繡龍紋掛幅

Provenance
Dreweatts 1759 London, 17 May 2014, lot 100

來源
倫敦Dreweatts 1759,2014年5月17日,拍品編號100

This sublime hanging banner is an assemblage of numerous fine sections of early Qing dynasty Chinese textiles. The fabrics were likely joined to be hung in a Buddhist temple setting, the luxurious fabrics originally received by the temple as donations from wealthy patrons. The cut velvet central element is a unusual survivor, given its large size. The inner kesi surround were likely taken from chair covers, and the blue ground embroidered border perhaps for a bed cover.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

FUKUI RYONOSUKE (JAPANESE, 1923-1986) Woman in profile

A CHINESE EIGHT-PANEL SCREEN INSET WITH BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN PLAQUES 20th century

A CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL BOWL WITH LARGE CORAL BRANCH Late Qing dynasty

A CHINESE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY VESSEL, HU Han-style or Han with base replaced

A CHINESE QIANJIANGCAI ENAMELED PORCELAIN OVOID JAR Late Qing dynasty/Republic period

TWO CHINESE ARCHAISTIC HARDSTONE CARVINGS

A MARBLE-MOUNTED ZITAN AND MIXED WOOD STORAGE BOX Late Qing/Republic period

TWO CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES 18th-19th century

A CHINESE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Ye Family Studio, 1916

A CHINESE INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE Ye Family Studio, 1927

A CHINESE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Ma Family, dated 1900

Bonhams logo

Bonhams logo