A FINELY WOVEN SILK AND METAL THREAD CARPET

A FINELY WOVEN SILK AND METAL THREAD CARPET

QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

The carpet is finely woven with delicate silk and gold-wrapped threads depicting a Buddhist lion playing with a Wheel of Law surrounded by eight cubs, amid scrolling lotus against a ground woven from silk and metal threads, flanked by Eight Buddhist Emblems and two precious objects between lishui borders above and below.

99 in. x 62 5/8 in. (251.4 cm. x 159 cm.)