Imperial Palace Carpets
Chinese Imperial Signed Antique Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery (Immortals and Fu Dog) n°:856474
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(320 × 188 cm)Late Qing dynasty signed Beiging Silk and Metal Carpet n°:54587294
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(305 × 245 cm)Antique Chinese Imperial Palace Carpet (Silk & Metal) n°:41901411
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(281 × 191 cm)Antique Silk & Metal Imperial Palace Chinese Carpet n°:71420945
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(245 × 156 cm)Antique Chinese Silk&Metal Rug n°:42264426
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(244 × 152 cm)Antique Pictorial Silk Chinese Rug n°:53656417
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(223 × 123 cm)Antique Ningxia Metal-Thread Imperial Palace Souf Chinese Rug n°:95912367
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(217 × 125 cm)Decorative Antique Chinese Silk & Metal Souf Field Rug n°:236690
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(215 × 123 cm)A Rare Antique Imperial Palace Chinese Silk & Metal Rug n°:79466225
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(215 × 127 cm)A Medallion Signed Chinese Antique Ningxia Rug n°:79726609
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(214 × 165 cm)Antique Imperial Palace Chinese Peking Silk Rug n°:49167166
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(212 × 125 cm)Antique Chinese Silk&Metal Rug n°:42856685
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(211 × 127 cm)Antique Chinese Imperial Palace Ningxia Metal-Thread Souf Carpet n°:17335821
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(210 × 122 cm)Chinese Imperial Silk & Matal (Kesi) Textile n°:25862558
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(210 × 72 cm)Antique Chinese Kilim Ningxia Metal Thread n°:59607719
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(206 × 138 cm)Five-Dragon Imperial Silk and Metal Chinese Rug n°:76413405
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(205 × 117 cm)
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The Forbidden City was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. This city built in 1420, now a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, has an area of 720 square kilometers and presents the luxurious lifestyle of the emperors and the imperial court.
These specimens have a silk fleece and a structure made up of silver-plated copper threads that are intertwined with the cotton forming the weft reminiscent of the “Sumak” process. The carpets, attributable to the nineteenth century, reveal an inscription in the upper part that places them in some imperial palaces of the forbidden city, called: “Palace of supreme harmony”, “Palace of perfect harmony”, “Palace of preserved harmony”, “Palace of literary splendor”, “Palace of military valor”, “Palace of Heavenly Purity”, “Palace of the great union”, “Palace of earthly tranquility”, “Palace of the spirit” and “Palace of the cult of the ancestors”.
The recurring symbology in these specimens, probably Peking, is generally Buddhist, Taoist or depicting landscapes and rarely geometric motifs.