Antique Museum Quality Pillar Rug with Lotus Flowers
N°
00489
Period
Circa 1900
Origin
Peking, Northern China
Materials
Wool
Status
Available
Size
385 x 48 cm12'7" x 1'6"
This unusual antique, museum-quality pillar rug features large lotus flowers with tracery reminiscent of Ming period weavings. Finely woven with lustrous wool, it remains in excellent, untouched condition.
I have seen three other examples of this type, all fragmentary. One is published in K.T. Darchen’s Secrets of Tibetan Weaving (Hong Kong, 2012, p. 92). These rugs were probably commissioned at the turn of the century for a specific monastery in Tibet.