LARGE RECTANGULAR CARPET TAO PAOA cotton warp and weft, the wool velvet, decorated with two deer standing on either side of a mound planted with a maple flowering peonies in the company of two cranes, one flying in the sky, the whole on a night blue backgroundChina, Inner Mongolia, 20th centuryA LARGE WOOL RUG, TAO PAO, CHINA, INNER MONGOLIA, 20TH CENTURY. IMG. 125 X 200 CM (49 3/16 X 78 3/4 IN.)Simon Mikaeloff, Paris. A certificate of origin dated July 6, 1993 will be given to the purchaser. This document dates the carpet "over a hundred years old".