EAST TURKESTAN, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A KHOTAN CARPET
EAST TURKESTAN, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Of 'Pomegranate' design, uneven wear with scattered repiling throughout
12ft.3in. x 6ft.4in. (374cm. x 193cm.)

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Lot Essay

Although the design is sometimes drawn with a single vase, the present carpet has a mirrored design along the central vertical axis displaying two vases at each end, each issuing an ascending tree hung with ripe pomegranates. A closely related example with the same field design and rich colours with an additional pierced polychrome trellis border and greater length, was offered in these Rooms as part of the Bernheimer Collection, 14 February 1996, lot 68. A smaller rug, which has the 'cloud head' border but only a single pomegranate-vase in the field was sold in these Rooms, 14 October 2004, lot 28.

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