Very unusual non traditional designed small Tibetan carpet which can only be described as 'art-deco'. It may have been used as a seating carpet, or for some other undetermined use. It may even have been a 'special order' possibly for, or on behalf of, a 'foreigner' living elsewhere at the time, possibly in one of the coastal cities of China, or even India, although that is simply speculation. Or the design itself may have been 'imported' as a 'one-off' having been seen elsewhere by a traveling Tibetan. The greyish-white background is undyed wool, while the blues (there are two, a dark and a light) and red appear to be natural - the blues certainly so - although the red has migrated ever-so-slightly in parts, possibly from the dye not having been fixed properly when the wool was first dyed. Be that as it may it remains an attractive and very unusual, almost certainly ‘one-off’, piece! Thought to be made sometime circa the 1930’s the size is 70cm x 58cm (approx. 27.5in x 22.8in), it has cotton warp and wool weft and is in very good condition.