A CHINESE SILK AND METAL THREAD RECTANGULAR CARPET, the golden- yellow field with scrolling indigo leafy and peony vine around a central cusped metal thread roundel with five-clawed dragon, the spandrels similar, the golden yellow border with scrolling flowering vine between key-pattern and seed-pearl stripes, a short kilim strip at each end, one inscribed in metal thread Zhonghe dian beiyon (for use in the Hall of Central Harmony) (kilims slightly reduced), late Qing Dynasty

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A CHINESE SILK AND METAL THREAD RECTANGULAR CARPET, the golden- yellow field with scrolling indigo leafy and peony vine around a central cusped metal thread roundel with five-clawed dragon, the spandrels similar, the golden yellow border with scrolling flowering vine between key-pattern and seed-pearl stripes, a short kilim strip at each end, one inscribed in metal thread Zhonghe dian beiyon (for use in the Hall of Central Harmony) (kilims slightly reduced), late Qing Dynasty
360cm. x 274cm.

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A similar carpet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was included in the Duke University Museum of Art exhibition, Imperial Carpets from Peking, April-May 1973 Cat., pl.12-A. See also the two Imperial rugs offered for sale in our Hong Kong Rooms, Christie's Swire, 10 October 1990, lots 1978, 1979.

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