Antique Chinese Peking RugThis rug comes from Beijing, historically known as Peking, where rug weaving developed in the imperial workshops of the Qing Dynasty and produced a style that became one of the most recognisable in the world. Peking rugs were made for the court and, later, for export to the West, and their design reflects both of those purposes: ordered, refined and quietly authoritative. The defining quality of a Peking rug is restraint. The palette is intentionally