A SILK AND COTTON KHOTAN CARPET

EAST TURKESTAN, CIRCA 1880

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A SILK AND COTTON KHOTAN CARPET
EAST TURKESTAN, CIRCA 1880
The shaded golden yellow field with a variety of rosettes and floral sprays around a column of three shaded plum-red roundels containing similar motifs flanking central concentric radiating flowerheads, bold angular key-pattern spandrels, in a stylised wave and cloud border with inner plum-red polychrome rosette and key-pattern stripes and outer shaded light blue floral meander and plain plum-red stripes, a short kilim strip at each end, even light wear showing slight differential corrosion, minute hole at one end
13ft.7in. x 6ft.7in. (414cm. x 201cm.)