Lot 42
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A RARE CLOUD AND CRANE CARPET

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A RARE CLOUD AND CRANE CARPET
Early 18th Century
The indigo field with rows of stylized cloud bands of beige, brown and blue, superimposed with two flying cranes picked out in white, within bands of key fret and continuous knobbed scroll and a wider band of octagonal cell pattern enclosed by the outer brown solid border, reduced
124 x 122in. (315.2 x 310cm.)

Lot Essay

Compare a carpet of similar design and date, also woven with cranes on a cloud ground, in The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., illustrated in Chinese and Exotic Rugs, Murray L. Eiland, Boston, 1979, p. 35, fig. 16.