An Exhibit of Antique Carpets; Carpets of the Silk Route
 
M-F 9 to 5.
June 1 through July 3.
 

n exhibit at the Michaelian and Kohlberg Gallery in New York is a collection of 19th and early 20th century carpets from Sinkiang in the south west of China and Inner Mongolia to the north. These rugs are mostly pictorial which is unusual as a weaving tradition. The Khotan rugs are from the Oasis towns of the Gobi desert and are typified by flowers, table top settings, landscapes, all viewed in a horizontal format and executed in strikingly vivid colors in an abstract flattened manner. The Mongolian carpets, probably from near the town of Paotow are more graphically rendered as bucholic scenes such as the village setting with geese shown here.