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472—AntTiquE CHINESE SADDLE-MAT
Oval form; short, close pile.’ Tree-peony flowers and butterflies
within the oval field, about a circular medallion comprehending
five lions, large and small; all in blue, white, yellow and brown
on a deep sapphire field. Border of symbols and scrolls in similar
colors on like ground. Seventeenth century.
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches.
473—Two AntievE CHINESE Mats
Short pile with loose texture and delicate sheen. Small medal-
lions of various design, in light and dark blue, white, old-gold
and ground-reserve, are sprinkled over a field of light fawn,
within a narrow border of fret in white on dark-blue with white
and pale-blue guard stripes. This is succeeded by a wide border
_of interrupted fret in white on pinkish-fawn. Early eighteenth
century.
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches.
474—AntieuE CHINESE Mat
Short, compact pile and loose texture. Fawn-colored field with
a medallion of rocks and blossoming trees in orange-brown, old-
gold, light and dark blue, other tree-groups omitting the old-
gold occurring between the medallion and angular spandrels en-
closing the swastika. Border of swastika-fret with medallic in-
terruptions. Eighteenth century
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches.
475—Rare ANTIQUE CHINESE Rounp Mar
Soft pile and loose texture. Probably made for some special —
purpose, round mats being unusual among Celestial fabrics. The
circular field presents an agreeable confusion of subdued color, ig
in subtly woven, restricted designs worked into the general and _
more pronounced display of tree branches with large blossoms, —
scrolling sprays and ornaments. A narrow border of light and ~
dark blue with white dots is embraced within a wider one of bold
leaf and blossom motive. Early eighteenth century. 3
Diameter, 2 feet 10 inches.
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476—ANTIQUE CHINESE Mat
Soft pile and loose texture. Brilliant mustard-yellow oblong
field, defined by a band carrying a geometrical pattern in two
shades of blue and white. From alternate corners of the
field a tree in cobalt and sapphire-blue springs, the branches
swinging across the field midway and dividing it. In each sec-
tion a flying stork appears above a spotted stag which looks up
at it—both emblems of longevity—also in cobalt and sapphire,
with the addition of white. Border of the same yellow ground-
color, pervaded by a composite meander and swastika-fret pat->
tern in a subtle fawn tone. Eighteenth century. .
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch.
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477—AnTIQUE CHINESE Mat
Tawny-pink field strewn with peony sprays in white, dark and
light blue and pale golden-yellow, between fretted spandrels and
a foliar medallion of yellow, white and the ground-color reserve,
into which is worked an extreme conventionalization of the archaic
dragon-scroll in the two shades of blue with white. Conventional
borders in blue and white and ground-reserve, with a meander in
light golden-yellow. Early eighteenth century.
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet.
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478—AnTIQUE CHINESE SavarE Mat
Five-clawed dragons in brilliant yellow overspread a glowing
sapphire ground, four dragons in the corners approaching a large
central one whose body encircles the flaming jewel. On all sides
the conventional wave border at intervals invades the field. The
forms of the monsters are picked out in light-blue, orange-pink
-and white, and the border comprises the colors of the general
scheme. Seventeenth century.
Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches.
479—AntTIQUE CHINESE Mat
Short pile with velvety surface; delicate fawn and greyhound
hues for the dominant notes, the oblong field carrying conven-
tional trees springing from the directions of the opposite ends,
and a central medallion evolved from scrolled tree-forms. Nar-
row border of the ground-colors with a meander in light-blue,
followed by a broader border of freely conventionalized tree or
plant scrolls. Seventeenth century.
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches.
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480—ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue
Short, close pile; overcast sides and fringe ends. Field of sap-
phire luster, strewn with small medallions in salmon-pink and
pale yellow-white, encompassing a medallion ,of conventional
archaic dragon-scroll in the same colors. Sides without borders;
multicolored end-borders disclosing the latch-hook and other |
Western Asiatic suggestions. Eighteenth century.
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet.
481—AntTIqauE CHINESE Ruc
Short, close pile; loose texture. Tawny-salmon oblong field,
without corner ornament, sprinkled with sundry small medal-
hons of varied design and color, about a large stork medallion
in white, sapphire and sky-blue. Conventional borders. Early
eighteenth century.
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches.
482—AnTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH
Soft pile and loose texture. Foliar medallions, sprays and but-
terfly-scrolls in yellow, white, brown and blue on a dark-sapphire
field. Flower-scroll border in light and dark blue, white and
light yellow, on an orange-brown ground. Eighteenth century.
Length, 4 feet 7 inches; breadth, 2 feet 3 inches.
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483—ANTIQUE CHINESE RuG
Compact pile, close texture. Floral and angular scroll corners
in bright yellows on dark blue; rich sapphire-blue field overspread
by a fine lattice in lighter blue, the interstices enclosing a con-
ventional device in the same light-blue and white, and the lattice
interrupted by sprays, butterflies and a medallion, in the yellows
of the corner designs. Bright border with scrolls and symbols.
Eighteenth century.
Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches.
484—AnTI@euE CHINESE SADDLE-MAT
In the shape of the silkworm’s cocoon. Short, soft, close pile,
with a sheen delicate in tone and rich in quality. Conven-
tionalized tree-blossoms in black, canary, fawn and blue, on a
~ gray or light-fawn ground; surrounded by narrow fret and broad
scroll borders. Seventeenth century.
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches.
485—AntiquE CHINESE Rue
Short pile and loose texture. Oblong field of salmon-pink with
a lattice-fret in lighter tone, spread with varied medallions in
light yellow, light and dark blue, and white. Chief border a blue
swastika-fret on light yellow ground. Eighteenth century.
Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches.
486—ANnTIQUE CHINESE Mat
Gray-white field, with archaic dragon-scroll corners in two shade
of blue, the field strewn with sprays and butterflies, in the two
blues and light brown and yellow, about a floral medallion in the
same colors. Dot, T-fret and flower-scroll borders. Eighteenth :
century.
Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch, 1
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Compact pile, with loose texture. Field a quasi- -salmon pink
overborne by tawny hue, carrying floral and geometrical orna-
ment in a central tedallisn and corners, with intermediate group-
ings of blossoming dwarfed trees in tubs, all in sapphire and pale
sky-blue, with white. Fret and floral borders. Early eighteenth —
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488—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue
A brown field of dark café-au-lait note is spread with conventional — a
designs in white, yellow and two shades of blue, and has in the —
center a medallion presenting in the same colors.a kylin and —
pheenix and the endless knot. Bordered by a fret in salmon-pink
| on blue, and a further border of scrolling devices in blues, white __
and yellow on a ground-color the same as the field’s. Eighteenth
century. ‘3
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. — a
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489—AntieuE CuHiInEsE Lone Mat
Short pile and loose texture. Salmon-pink field, with the archaic
dragon-scroll in light and dark blue at the corners; three large
flower medallions among the ‘Hundred Antiques” in bright yel-
low, brown, white and two shades of blue. Scroll border in
harmony. Eighteenth century. |
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch.
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490—Antiaur Cuinese Mat
Soft, deep, compact pile. Oblong field of deer-skin ground, in
which are worked seven horses, willow and other trees, in one of
which two birds perch, mountains and moss-spotted rocks, all in
cobalt and-sapphire-blue, salmon-pink, white, pale-yellow and
different shades of brown; an unusual and individual decoration
accomplished in an interesting manner; the horses in different
attitudes and no two alike in color. Broad border of foliar
scrolls in similar hues, following a narrow border of key-fret in
white on blue. Seventeenth century.
Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet 2 inches.
491—ExcrePrprionaL ANTIQUE CHINESE Ruc
Short, dense pile, and rare ornamentation. Narrow-selvage
and fringe-ends. A tawny-yellow throughout, with dragon
ration. A central medallion displays a dragon and scrol
rug, with like scrolls in the two shades of blue; and about
field are eight other dragons in the two blues, picked out by the
darker yellow. Surrounding the medallions and_ scattere is
throughout the fabric are innumerable twisted cords a few inc
in length, coming through the pile and overlying the surface
shaggy carelessness of unique decoration. It has been ex
jectured that they also serve as a protection to the surface c
the fabric. Sixteenth century. .
Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 1 ine
492—AntiavuE CHINESE Rve
Soft, compact pile; overcast ends and fringed sides. On a light-
fawn field the ‘“‘Hundred Antiques,” with various writers’ tab.
ornaments, scattered in blue, black, yellow and other colors
around a medallion of floral and geometrical designs ; correspon--
dent corner patterns, and borders ornamented in two shades of
blue and yellow. Seventeenth century.
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches.
493—EIGHTETENTH CENTURY CHINESE RUG
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