A Chinese carpet, Peking

The lotus blossom and scrolling leaf design of this carpet is one of the most enduring Chinese patterns, found in rugs from the 17th century on, as examples, a K'ang rug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see Dimand, M.S. and Mailey, J., Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, fig. 278, and the Kelekian 'lotus and scrolling leaf' carpet in a Private collection, Locarno, see Franses, M., Classical Chinese Carpets in Western Collections: The Kangxi Period, 1661-1722, London, 2002, pl. 8.