7 | Bao Tou Carpet, North China, Inner Mongolia, around 1900

• Wool on cotton
• Inner Mongolia, North China, c. 1900
• Knot density: approx. 150,000 knots per m2
• Dimensions: 1.80 x 0.93 m
• Age-according very good condition
• Pattern with large open window with mirroring bat pattern over grids and cloud bands, in the interior fond swastika, the border filled with loose perch work
• This object is sold through the Berlin office

This is a Chinese carpet in long rectangular shape. One incense burner with baldachin in each corner with ascending cloud-shaped smoke. The bats as symbols of luck. The main border filled with dragon figures (better visible on the back). Four different shades of blue on light beige fond. The border is a wired stripe in dark blue, set off by a narrow stripe in light blue inside. Very interesting and unusual composition of the pattern. The carpet is in age-according very good condition. The dimensions are 1.80 x 0.93 m.