A vintage Chinese Art Deco carpet. A dragon writhes in billowing clouds in tones of beige, taupe and brown, against the black field while other clouds mount in the diagonally opposite side, all within a fret border and plain black outer band. A very graphic and powerful example of interwar carpet production in Tientsin (Tianjin), NE China for the American market. The majority of Chinese Art Deco carpets are designed singletons, each unique, and this one surely is.