A LARGE CHINESE CARPET

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CHINESE CARPET
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Of Ming design, areas of wear, small hole in field, rewoven patch at one end of minor stripe, selvages and ends frayed
22ft.3in. x 15ft.6in. (676cm. x 471cm.)

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Lot Essay

The design is a reversed and elongated copy of a Ming carpet now in a private collection in Lugano, see Michael Franses and Hans Koenig, Glanz der Himmelssohne, Kaiserliche Teppiche Aus China 1400-1750, London, 2005, pl.4, p.63.

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