Rug

Peking, China

Early 19th century

  • Titles Rug (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Dimensions 73 x 39 in. (185.4 x 99.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Coleman Cooper, Palm Beach, Florida, 1985.79
  • Work Type rug
  • Classification Rugs

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Large polychrome jar with openwork bisque fired panels depicting cranes amidst clouds, painted designs in underglaze-blue of winged horse, a ky lan, a tiger-like creature with a Chinese coin, lotus and lotus panels
Winter Costume (.4, recto); Shinto Priest (.5, verso), Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, hand-colored albumen prints mounted to album page
A six-panel folding screen. The primary scenes on the front are palace scenes with many water features and bridges with many sons and laidies playing games of leisure done in painted ivory/bone. Clouds and some architectural details are picked out in back in painted gold lacquer. The main scene on each panel is fronted with glass. Above the main scene is a detailed carved dragon panel, same below. There is a bottom inset scene on each panel of carved flowers. The back of each panel is painted with two scenes of birds and flowers in colored lacquer.
Bulbous vessel, or vase, of porcelaneous stoneware covered with a celadon glaze, pear-shaped, the neck pinched and slit at the sides, the lip folding slightly outwards and edged in brown.