AN IMPERIAL CHINESE CARPET BORDER FRAGMENTPROBABLY BEIJING, NORTH CHINA, EARLY 17TH CENTURYAN IMPERIAL CHINESE CARPET BORDER FRAGMENTPROBABLY BEIJING, NORTH CHINA, EARLY 17TH CENTURYFull pile, a few minute cobbled repairs, bound on all four sides, overall very good condition5ft.11in. x 3ft.7in. (178cm. x 107cm.)It is highly probable that the carpet from which this fragment came was woven in the same Imperial Beijing carpet workshops as the large Wanli palace carpets, such as the carpet sold at Christie’s New York, 11 December 2014, lot 8 and the Imperial 'Dragon' Throne carpet in Christie's Paris, 23 November 2021, lot 224. The present carpet was probably intended for use in one of the Imperial palaces and although we cannot get any sense of what the field design might have been, what is unmistakable from the scale of the border and the elegance of the design is that this would have been a very impressive carpet indeed. The design of the main border is an attractive lattice made up of a repeating pattern of four joined cloud bands and is a design found in Wanli carpets and in wall decoration in the Palace Museum, Beijing. Similarly, the stripe of meandering alternating peonies is found in the borders of a number of carpets in the Palace Museum collection (Liu Baojian and Yuan Hongqi, Carpets in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2010, pp. 34, 48, 55, 58). In the note accompanying the present lot in Glanz der Himmelssohne, Kaiserliche Teppiche Aus China 1400-1750 the author states that another border fragment from the same carpet as the present lot is in a private collection in Lugano (Michael Franses and Hans König, ibid., London, 2005, pl.52, p.68). Avery Brundage (1887-1975) was a renowned Chicago industrialist and the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee. He started to collect Asian art in 1939, having been inspired by an exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy London, and over the course of thirty five years amassed one of the finest private collections of Asian art. In 1959 Brundage promised part of his collection to the City of San Francisco if they would build a museum to house it. The museum was constructed as an additional wing of the de Young Museum and opened in 1966. By the end of his life Brundage had donated nearly 8,000 Asian art objects to the City of San Francisco—all housed at the Asian Art Museum. In 2003 the Asian Art Museum moved to its own building and the collection stands at more than 17,000 objects, making it the largest museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia.细节 AN IMPERIAL CHINESE CARPET BORDER FRAGMENTPROBABLY BEIJING, NORTH CHINA, EARLY 17TH CENTURYFull pile, a few minute cobbled repairs, bound on all four sides, overall very good condition5ft.11in. x 3ft.7in. (178cm. x 107cm.) 来源 With Avery Brundage, San Francisco, by 1960, and donated to the Asian Art Museum San Francisco (de-accessioned in the 1960s)Mrs Gwen Rutherford, GlendaleJames and Stephanie Burns, Seattle 出版 HALI 56, p.87Michael Franses and Hans König, Glanz der Himmelssohne, Kaiserliche Teppiche Aus China 1400-1750, London, 2005, pl. 8, p.68 展览 San Francisco Asian Art Museum, 6th International Conference of Oriental Carpets, November 1990 注意事项 This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’swill inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storageare set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere.Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only.Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com.If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm.Lots are not available for collection at weekends. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.