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Lot Essay
A carpet with comparable field is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Dimand, M. and Mailey, J.: Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, no.199, p.338 and fig.268). The field panels in the present carpet are more spacious and contain a variety of different motifs.
The same border of stylised floral sprays and Chinese lotus flowers can be found on the Beijing Qing dynasty "hundred antiques" carpet, attributed to the first half of the 18th century, (Dickinson, Gray: "The hundred antiques", in Franses, Michael (ed.):Classical Chinese Carpets, London, 2000, pl.24)
The same border of stylised floral sprays and Chinese lotus flowers can be found on the Beijing Qing dynasty "hundred antiques" carpet, attributed to the first half of the 18th century, (Dickinson, Gray: "The hundred antiques", in Franses, Michael (ed.):Classical Chinese Carpets, London, 2000, pl.24)