Ming dynasty and rug making

Ming dynasty gave birth to the fourth period in the styles of Chinese ornament, and during its continuance, from the middle of the fourteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century, both Mohammedan and European influences marked art in many ways.

During this period there was employed in art work a superlative abundance of decorative schemes.

Objects of rare beauty were made at the instigation of the Ming emperors, and art reached its high water mark in China.