EAST TURKESTAN, CENTRAL ASIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

The light sapphire-blue, lilac and yellow palette see here, is one more commonly associated with Khotan carpets woven in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The Yun Tsai T’ou or 'Cloudband' main border, is typical for Khotan rugs, but also Chinese carpets of the classical period (Michael Franses & Hans König, Glanz der Himmelssohne, Kaiserliche Teppiche Aus China 1400-1750, London, 2005, p.68). For further discussion of Khotan carpets of 'pomegranate' design see Hans Bidder, Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, Tubingen, 1979, pp.49-53 and the previous lot in the present sale.