A vintage East Turkestan Khotan carpet. Khotan room size carpets are relatively uncommon. Our example features a mauve-grey field with rows and columns of boxes enclosing floriated roundels and rosettes: the “cassette gul” pattern. The borders include a straw inner with disjoint rosettes, a middle with anthropomorphic figures and a wide outer in the Yun-Tsao Tou design.