Pillar cover with Ming pattern

00489
Period
Circa 1900
Origin
Peking, Northern China
Status
Available
Size
385 cm x 48 cm
12'7" x 1'6"

a very unusual long and narrow pillar rug, decorated by large lotus flowers with tracery in a manner reminiscent of Ming period weavings. I have seen three other examples of this type, all of which fragmentary (one is published in K.T. Darchen, Secrets of Tibetan Weaving,. Hong Kong 2012, p. 92). These were most probably commissioned at the turn of the century for a specific monastery in Tibet.

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