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Antique Chinese Oriental Carpet

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, 05-03-2011 at 05:27 PM (449 Views)

Nazmiyal's
Antique Chinese Oriental Carpets 41837
Style: Chinese
Origin: China
Size: 8. ft 03 in x 14 ft 02 in (2.51 m x 4.32 m)
Antique Chinese Oriental Peking Rug, 1920's - This antique Peking is the at once traditional and yet so modern in its elegant simplicity. A plain monochrome border surrounds a mauve field with an allover pattern of s-shaped tiger stripes. The stripes, however, are all subtle in tone, most barely perceptible against the background. As a result, the rug largely functions as a modernist open field composition. Only a closer look reveals the complex allover patterning. As a decorative carpet it offers the best of all possible worlds.