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A SILK AND METAL THREAD PEKING RUG
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A SILK AND METAL THREAD PEKING RUG

CHINA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SILK AND METAL THREAD PEKING RUG
China, Late 19th Century
The pictorial field containing stylised rocks and trees around a pagoda together with cloudbands in a golden yellow border containing Chinese motifs between zigzag and plain stripes, slight wear in the metal thread
7ft.10in. x 5ft. (238cm. x 152cm.)
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拍品專文

The inscription translates: "For Imperial use in the Palace of Cloudless Heaven".
A similar rug, with a differently drawn version of the same scene and with the same inscription, was exhibited in 1973 (Imperial Carpets from Peking, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, 1973, pl.6, pp.22-23).