Reciprocal Trefoil Border in East Turkestan and Elsewhere

Cosmopolitan Club

A connoisseur and collector of Old Master and modern paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts as well as carpets, Hans Koenig is an authority on Chinese and Central Asian carpets, a recipient of the prestigious Joseph V. McMullan Award, and the author of several highly-regarded books, in particular Splendor of the Sons of Heaven, Imperial Chinese Carpets, the catalogue of the ground-breaking exhibition he and Michael Franses organized in Cologne in 2005.