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A KHOTAN CARPET
East Turkestan, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The pale yellow field scattered with stylised floral sprays and conch shells around a row of three shaded brown roundels, two containing a central lozenge issuing angular pomegranates, the shaded red cusped and hooked panel of the other containing angular flowerheads, stepped key-pattern spandrels, in a shaded brown flowerhead border between key-pattern and cloudband hooked flowerhead stripes, plain shaded brown outer stripe, some areas of wear and and re-piling, tinted back
12ft.7in. x 6ft.10in. (384cm. x 208cm.)
East Turkestan, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The pale yellow field scattered with stylised floral sprays and conch shells around a row of three shaded brown roundels, two containing a central lozenge issuing angular pomegranates, the shaded red cusped and hooked panel of the other containing angular flowerheads, stepped key-pattern spandrels, in a shaded brown flowerhead border between key-pattern and cloudband hooked flowerhead stripes, plain shaded brown outer stripe, some areas of wear and and re-piling, tinted back
12ft.7in. x 6ft.10in. (384cm. x 208cm.)