Rare Antique Imperial or Monastic Ningxia Nine Dragon Banner Rug

A rare dark blue chair seat with a fierce writhing central dragon and four surrounding similar creatures. Clouds are scattered about. A mountain, wave...

This antique Chinese Ningxia rug Floating dragon design is a true work of art. The intricate design features dragons and clouds in shades of blue, white ...

53479 Antique Chinese Ningxia Pillar Rug 03'05 x 14'01. The interplay between the piece’s various decorative elements gives the composition a great ...

A striped and quartered round medallion is set on a close textile patterned all-over red and gold field with fret corners enclosing swastika squares. Coins float in the main border.   

Tibetan rugs woven with thick squarish knots in brilliant colours are considered among the earliest, and are often referred to in Tibet as Gyantse. Here we see a centralised light bl...

Tigers are not native animals of the Tibetan plateau; however their presence in neighbouring countries such as China and India partly explain its depiction, both in a realistic as well as in an abstract fashion, on a specific group of antique Tibetan weavings. The tiger pelt became a symbol of high rank in Tibet, employed almost exclusively on weavings which belonged to the religious as well as secular upper class. Following a series of important exhibitions and publications, rugs with this design have become exceedingly rare and sought-after. On this rare monastic example, the tiger pelt rug...