A Tibet tiger rug with a skeleton effect tiger and with its tail on its back and with dots to the...

A Tibet tiger rug

with a skeleton effect tiger and with its tail on its back and with dots to the sides,

130cm x 75cm.

Provenance

Mimi Lipton, London.

Spink & Son London, August 1997.

Dr J S Gordon collection.

Literature

Mimi Lipton. The Tiger Rugs of Tibet, 1988. p.75, pl.56

The above book accompanied the exhibition 'The Tiger Rugs of Tibet' at the Hayward Gallery, London in which the archaic appearance of the above rug suggests it being the oldest in the exhibition and the head showing features of a snow-lion, the national emblem of Tibet.