Late Ming c.a Antique Carpet with emperor on clouds

In the quiet hush of a dimly lit room, there lies a treasure from another time – an antique Chinese Peking carpet, a testament to craftsmanship and artistry that transcends the ages....

In the heart of ancient China, within the resplendent Ming dynasty, a masterpiece was cast in bronze, a testament to a culture steeped in mysticism and spirituality. This Taoist bron...

In a realm where time stands still, there exists a 16th-century masterpiece, a sculpture of unparalleled beauty that transports you to the heart of the Ming dynasty. Here, in a place...

Antique Consolle in wood gilded end 1800 beginning 1900. The particularity of the console and its top covered with original velvet of the time of dark orange color. the wood of the c...

Antique and very rare Japanese painting made in the early 1900s by a fine Japanese manufacturer. The painting has a rectangular brass frame with rounded corners. Internally we see a...

Painting on copper. Italian school of the late 17th century. The scene, which recounts a moment in the Passion of Christ, is filled with the charac...

77449, antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Ming Dynasty style. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a color-blocked field and border scheme festooned with asymm...

Antique Large Chinese Carpet, Late 19th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 15'0" W x 16'3" L Origin: China Period: Late 19th Century Rug ID:...

The only huge carpet known to have left the Imperial Palace in Beijing's Forbidden City, formerly in the Perenchio collection, is the famous Tiffany carpet, 9.99 metres long and once 9.68 metres wide, but since reduced to 7.20 metres wide. The carpet was originally made in three parts to fit around the columns of an unknown hall, and was reportedly last used in China in the private temple of the Empress Dowager Cixi. It was purchased for Louis Comfort Tiffany of New York, who owned it for more than thirty years. The Tiffany carpet is currently attributed to the end of the Ming dynasty and is thought to have been made in the first part of the 17th century. The field pattern is composed of a repeating design of rows of lotus flowers on a soft beige ground, originally deep red, overlaid in the centre with a medallion formed by a blue line edged in ivory and pinched in the four corners. The field is enclosed by two borders on the same colour, which reappears beyond the borders to create a wide band around the outer edge. The inner border is composed of a lattice of stepped squares filled with a swastika, with a large rosette at each intersection. The outer border is a double version of the swastika fret. A section of the field is shown here, and a few other fragments survive. The Tiffany carpet clearly forms a link between the carpets made during the late 16th century and those made in the late 17th century. Examples with an identical flower design or the same specific ‘heavy’ weave are now referred to as the ‘Tiffany’ type after this most important carpet. Other carpets of this type include one in the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Tiffany type...

Antique rare Tibetan carpet with pink flowers. From an Italian personal collection: first time on the market. (Look to other ones). No restoration: wo...

Antique Chinese Ningxia Carpet Rug, Late 19th Century This elegant Chinese Ningxia carpet draws a central roundel composed of lotuses flanked by slightly smaller roundels of the sam...

Stunning antique East Turkestan Khotan rug, with a pomegranate trellis overall within a series of reciprocal geometric stripes. Period: late 19th century Country of origin: East Tu...