Modern Chinese Pictorial Rug

A wool pile of asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation. A traveling scholar moves to the right, seated on a donkey and dressed in a medium-to-deep blue robe and straw-beige hat, accompanied by a tan sack or vessel filled with blue and cream branches and fruit. He proceeds along a warm-ivory shoreline beside cobalt-to-deep-blue water, while a giant ivory Taihu rock formation, boldly outlined in deep cobalt blue, looms behind against a plain burnt-peach to cinnamon-brown background.