Vintage Chinese Pictorial Rug
No. 31817
China, Mid-20th Century
1 ft. 1 in. x 1 ft. 5 in.
(0.33 x 0.43 m)
A wool pile of asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation, woven sideways. The only mythical animal in the Chinese Zodiac, the scaly, writhing dragon in blue and black advances leftward on the plain ochre ground, with plain, linear black and blue borders.
