LARGE RECTANGULAR TAO PAO CARPET with cotton warp and weft, wool velvet, decorated with two deer standing on either side of a mound planted with a flowered maple tree of peonies in the company of two cranes, one flying in the sky, all on a dark blue background. China, Inner Mongolia, 20th century. A LARGE WOOL RUG, TAO PAO, CHINA, INNER MONGOLIA, 20TH CENTURY. DIM. 125 X 200 CM (49 3/16 X 78 3/4 IN.
)PROVENANCE

Simon Mikaeloff,
Paris. A certificate of origin dated July 6, 1993 will be provided to the purchaser. This document dates the carpet "more than a hundred years old".