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Antique Khotan Carpet
Antique Khotan Oriental Rug, nineteenth century.
This magnificent antique Khotan is the epitome of classic East Turkestan rug design. A cruciform central medallion spews forth small pomegranates, surrounded by smaller openwork medallions, cloudbands, and rosettes. The colors of the field pattern vary enormously across the surface imparting a sense of deep space and a dynamic, ever-shifting qual...
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Antique Khotan Rug
Antique Khotan, East Turkestan, circa 1900.
Openwork medallions in a staggered array make up the center of the field design on this courtly antique Khotan, A smaller array of minor elements fills out the field to either end, enclosed by fretwork cornerpieces. A border of snowflake rosettes makes up the mail border, separated from the field by a minor border of meander. The use of only two col...
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Antique Khotan Carpet
Antique Khotan, early twentieth century.
A classic Chinese allover fretwork design repeats with consummate precision and finesse across the mauve cocoa ground of this classically elegant antique Khotan. The meander motif is reconfigured as a longitudinal design for the border, but now on black, in a beautiful complementary contrast to the mauve cocoa field. The rug is simultaneously complex and...
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Antique Khotan Carpet
Antique Khotan, East Turkestan, circa 1900.
The field of this magnificent antique Khotan is based on the classic 'Small Pattern Holbein' design widely used on Turkish rugs of the early Ottoman period. Here, larger stylized arabesque medallions alternate in staggered arrangement with smaller knotwork medallions. The hooked vinescroll design of the border also derives from the Ottoman rug repert...
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Antique Khotan Carpet
Antique Khotan Rug from East Turkestan, late nineteenth century.
Though woven in east Turkestan, this is extremely rare and unusual antique Khotan has field and border designs derived from the Kuba rugs produced in the Caucasus over a thousand miles to the west, a remarkable testament to the ties among all rug-producing regions. An allover array of lovely rosettes in ivory, soft blues, and saff...
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