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A NINGXIA YELLOW-GROUND CARPET
19TH CENTURY
Depicting two monks blowing conch shells and flanking a large incense burner on a waisted lotus petal stand, with three lines of script picked out in black encircling the censer, all surrounded by Buddhist emblems within a shaped cartouche, above a stylized wave and cloud border and beneath a panel of dragons, all in ochre, brown, blue, orange, yellow, red, blue and cream against a maize ground
71½ x 181.6in. (78 x 198.2cm.)
19TH CENTURY
Depicting two monks blowing conch shells and flanking a large incense burner on a waisted lotus petal stand, with three lines of script picked out in black encircling the censer, all surrounded by Buddhist emblems within a shaped cartouche, above a stylized wave and cloud border and beneath a panel of dragons, all in ochre, brown, blue, orange, yellow, red, blue and cream against a maize ground
71½ x 181.6in. (78 x 198.2cm.)