Additional Features

• Origin: China.
• Style: Chinese rugs.
• While antique Chinese carpets are generally known for their soft, restrained coloration, the palette here reminds us of the importance of color in classic Chinese design, especially red. In Chinese culture the color red is very significant. It symbolizing positivity and things like good luck, joy and happiness. Red is also a celebratory color and is strongly associated with things like vitality and fertility in the more traditional symbolism meanings of color in China. In addition, Chinese brides will also wear red as protective color to help ward off any form of evil.
• The floating circular elements portray what seem to be birds or more specifically cranes, which play a major part in Chinese art. This combination of brighter / happier colors and free flowing approach to the design is a departure from the more structured and softer colors that we usually expect to see in the rugs from China.
• Finding antique rugs like this, that are unique withing their own grouping, is quite exciting. People who are buying area rugs and are wanting to source rugs that more unique and different would be excited to come across such area rugs. The timeless beauty, historical feel, magnificent use of both form and color make this red background antique Chinese Ningsia rug a truly remarkable piece of Chinese history as well as a beautiful rug for the floor.