Modern East Turkestan Khotan Large Room Size Carpet

A wool pile of asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation. With slightly softer colors, this carpet closely copies the 18th-century Kurdish small garden carpet in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Fish-inhabited watercourses converge into a central square red tank, surrounded by sky blue sections with flowers that partially encircle rust-colored parterres. A main bitonal reciprocal crenellation border frames the composition.