10 x 12 - Purple Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug - 78185

78185 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 10'02 x 11'07.

With its cold, arid climate ideal for raising sheep, Baotou, a city in the Inner Mongolia region of China, was a major weaving center known for producing high-quality wool. The city was also important due to its location along the trade routes between two other major weaving centers: Ningxia and Beijing. In the second half of the 19th century, a mural painter of temple walls introduced pictorial representations into carpet making in Baotou.

This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug boasts the realistic pictorial composition and soft, plush pile that are characteristic of the beloved Baotou rugs. Radiating from the center is an open medallion depicting a variety of scholarly objects arranged in a still life design. A Chinese scroll, book, chessboard, lute, and florals are entwined in ribbon-like Ruyi cloud band motifs. The objects on display are firmly rooted in the philoso