Chinese carpet, ca. 1900; 9’11 x 13’2” / 302 x 401 cm. Exceptionally glossy wool with hand-spun warps, flowering gnarled trees with butterflies and birds in field, medium blue ground, solid red border around field, then a wider border, solid deep indigo, then a narrow border in medium blue. Flowers, birds, butterflies, and vases populate borders .