Antique Chinese Khotan RugThis rug comes from Khotan, an ancient oasis city in the Xinjiang region of western China, sitting at the crossroads of the Silk Road where Chinese, Persian and Central Asian cultures met and traded for centuries. That position shaped everything about the way these rugs were made and what ended up in them. Khotan rugs are unlike anything else from China. Where most Chinese rugs draw from a strictly Chinese visual vocabulary, Khotan absorbed influences