No.P95 * Chinese Antique Rug ,Origin:Beijing.Age:Late 19th Century. Size:87x161cm(2'10"x5'3").Shape:Rectangle. Background Color: Blues and Greens. This sleeping carpet (khaden) has a single central medallion in a double dorje (a Tibetan male symbol) pattern. The medallion is surrounded by very unusual double T-shaped meanders (these symbols rarely appear in the field of a carpet), endless knots, lotus flowers with leaves and small flyfots in happy wheels. The inner border is a garland of shells and a form of archiac thunder meander. The outer border is a joined flyfot pattern known in Tibet as "yungdrung lagdel" and it symbolizes the sun. Cotton warp and weft, asymmetrical woollen knots.