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NORTH CHINA, 19TH CENTURY"The golden yellow field with a flowerhead to each corner surrounded by soft grass-green leaves, centralised with a pale pink flowerhead, enclosed in a narrow double striped charcoal-brown and pale pink border, full thick pile throughout, rewoven along the outer minor stripe at both ends of one matEach; 2ft.1in. x 2ft.4in. (64cm. x 71cm.)"It is difficult to state with absolute certainty the original use of carpets in the decoration of Tibetan Buddhist temples in China. Circumstantial evidence and late 19th- and early 20th-century accounts and photographs document some of the use at that time where we can see these woven squares covering benches or laid upon the floor between the supportive columns. Despite their diminutive size at just 2ft. x 4ft., they were woven with a wide variety of designs, frequently woven as continuous runners separated by a narrow section of leno weave which could be cut accordingly. Indeed, a longer example of ten joined panels bearing the same decoration as the present pair of mats was offered at Christie's London, 24 April 2012, lot 177.