Chinese sample rugs
We have recently completed the
cleaning and restoration of an English customers 4 Chinese sample
rugs.
These rugs which were probably manufacturers samples that were obtained in Peking in the early part of the 20th cent . Having newly married her Russian grandparents left St. Petersburg for the Russian enclave Harbin in Manchuria where they lived from 1903/4 to the late 1920s. The grandfather travelled extensively as #2 Senior Executive for the Eastern China Railway Company. They moved to Shanghai in the late 1920s where they remained until 1949. Whilst Persian 'Wagirehs' are occasionally seen sample rugs such as these are almost unique to the writer although one wonders why there are not more of them."
These rugs which were probably manufacturers samples that were obtained in Peking in the early part of the 20th cent . Having newly married her Russian grandparents left St. Petersburg for the Russian enclave Harbin in Manchuria where they lived from 1903/4 to the late 1920s. The grandfather travelled extensively as #2 Senior Executive for the Eastern China Railway Company. They moved to Shanghai in the late 1920s where they remained until 1949. Whilst Persian 'Wagirehs' are occasionally seen sample rugs such as these are almost unique to the writer although one wonders why there are not more of them."