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Antique All-Over Pattern Botanical Design Tabriz Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An antique fine Tabriz rug distinguished by a light rose background embellished by a botanical all-over pattern, framed by a wide white ground border. Rugs of this type were woven in...
Category
Early 20th Century Azerbaijani Tabriz Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Design Kurdish Tulu Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A quite unusual old Kurdish Tulu from eastern Anatolia characterised by an abstract pattern derived from a miscellany of various colors, resulting in a very modernist composition. A ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mocha Brown Square Kurdish Tulu with Terracotta Diamonds, Circa 1910
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as these were intended as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Allover Design Celadon Green Oushak Rug with Blush Pink Border
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Oushak carpets are heirs of a very long standing tradition. As rugs of this type were woven in western Anatolia since the Golden Age of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kurdish Tulu with Dotted Polychrome Background
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are quite simple, ranging from completely open fields to stacked niches, with basic geometric patterns such as the one here representing some interesting variants. Here the field is embellished by an infinite repeat dotted pattern, which gains momentum by virtue of the irregular colour variations of the background, creating a syncopated and colourful stripe...
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Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Museum Quality Antique Chinese Pillar Rug with Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual long and narrow pillar rug, decorated by large lotus flowers with tracery in a manner reminiscent of Ming period weavings. It is very finely ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mint Antique Imperial Chinese Ningxia Throne Back Cover with Lion Dogs
Located in Milan, IT
A rare example of Ningxia Chinese throne back cover of Imperial quality in pristine condition. A true gem distinguished by a plethora of shades of red, ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Tibetan Khaden Monastic Rug with Longevity Motifs
Located in Milan, IT
Finely hand knotted employing the best quality Tibetan highland wool, this exceptional khaden was commissioned as a sitting rug for a high ranked Tibetan Lama for monastic use. The u...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Kurdish Tulu with Polychrome Checkerboard Design
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. The patterns are typ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early Chinese Kangxi Period '1662-1722' Ningxia Rug with Blossom Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Chinese rug, possibly used originally as a dais cover, which had been previously attributed to the Western region of Gansu (H. König, Gansu, Hali 138, London 2005, pl. 13, p. 58). However both the structure and the colours are fairly typical of Ningxia weavings from the Kangxi period (1662-1722), which marks the first Qing Dynasty empire following the Ming Dynasty and which still carries much of its iconography. Of particular note are the four stylised blue dragons on a coral background which decorate the corners of the composition. A true masterpiece of early Chinese textile art.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique French Art Deco Cubist Design Rug Attributed to Ivan da Silva Bruhns
By Ivan da Silva Bruhns
Located in Milan, IT
The rare examples which can be attributed to Ivan da Silva Bruhns (1881-1980) are among the most sought after French Art Deco carpets. Characterized by geometric elements clearly inf...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Design Lips by Verner Panton
By Verner Panton
Located in Milan, IT
'Design Lips' is a fabric wall panel designed and produced in 1968 as part of Verner Panton's 'Anatomical Designs Collection', which were photoreali...
Category
Vintage 1960s Swiss Space Age Tapestries
Materials
Cotton
Rare and Early Khotan Rug with Two Niches
Located in Milan, IT
I don’t know of any other East Turkestan rug with only two niches, displayed here in a sort of yin yang. The outstanding palette, consisting of three shades of red, blue and green, i...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century East Turkestani Khotan Chinese and East Asian...
Materials
Wool
Early High Atlas Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Berber rugs from the the High Atlas region are often distinguished by an iconography that relates them to more 'classical' tribal rugs, such as those of Anatolia and the Caucasus...
Category
Vintage 1930s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Judaica Moroccan Berber Carpet with Stars of David
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Berber carpet from the Rehamna area, located in the plains near Marrakesh, distinguished by an orange background decorated uniquely by two vertical arrangements of conjoined diamond placed at the extreme sides of the field. What is quite unusual is the presence of three stars of David embellishing the center of the field, indicating that the carpet was possibly woven for a Moroccan Jewish...
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Vintage 1950s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Zemmour Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare mixed technique Berber rug ascribed to the Zemmour people, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas, originally used as a saddle cover - an item of great prestige among Berber tri...
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Vintage 1920s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
18th Century Caucasian Carpet with Harshang Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely rare and early Caucasian carpet from present day Armenia ornate by an infinite repeat pattern of palmettes alternated to split-leaf arabesques known also as the 'harshan...
Category
Antique 1760s Armenian Other Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Berber Textured Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Berber rug characterized by a red background which partially conceals a pointillist pattern in ivory. The resulting rug has a unique texture reminiscent of certain Sca...
Category
Vintage 1960s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Alpujarra Spanish Textured Rug Signed and Dated 1891
Located in Milan, IT
Alpujarra rugs were traditionally woven between the 15th and the 19th centuries in the villages of the Alpujarra district, located in southern Spain in the Granada region. These are ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Spanish Moorish Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Red and Green Checkerboard Turkish Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Karapin...
Category
Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Minimalist Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rather unusual Berber rug from the Ait Sgogou tribe, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas, distinguished by a rich red open field embellished at both ends by contorting horizontal ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Anatolian Tulu Narrow Runner Rug with Polychrome Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
A truly spectacular runner distinguished by a plethora of colours arranged as horizontal stripes. Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically kno...
Category
Vintage 1970s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare French Cubist Maison Myrbor Rug by Louis Marcoussis, Circa 1925
By Louis Marcoussis
Located in Milan, IT
Maison Myrbor was a French manufacturer and retailer of carpets founded by Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973). The first workshop was set up in her home in Sétif,...
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Vintage 1920s Algerian Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage High Atlas Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven Berber rug from the Zenaga region, located in the Moroccan High Atlas, distinguished by a light indigo blue background decorated by paralle...
Category
Vintage 1960s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
18th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug with Floral Medallion and Butterflies
Located in Milan, IT
Characterised by the delicate drawing which distinguishes the weavings of the short and noble Yongzheng period (1723-1735), it has a beautifully drawn...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Exquisite Ottoman Style Silk Embroidered Textile Hanging or Spread
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined embroidery embellished by an infinite repeat of stylised leafs and palmettes typical of 16th Century Ottoman Court workshops. It belongs to a group of weavings commi...
Category
Early 2000s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Art Deco Chinese Rug by Nichols & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
A blue ground rug with an ascending pattern of stylised clouds woven by Nichols & Co, a leading American company based in Tianjin known for its very sturdy and hardwearing rugs, usua...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Geometric Design Chinese Rug with Polychrome Diamonds
Located in Milan, IT
There is a group of later Chinese carpets which are characterized by geometric, often abstract patterns that seem inspired by Western sensibilities. What is puzzling however is that most of these weavings have been sourced in recent years in China itself, where they have been used in households ever since they were made. Whatever its origin, the resulting pattern of coloured lozenges has an outstanding three dimensional quality, and can be compared to the most important objects of twentieth century design.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Cream Ground Modernist Rug with Oak Leafs
Located in Milan, IT
A highly unusual Modernist rug distinguished by a repeat pattern of realistically drawn, large oak leafs arranged on an ivory background. Finely knotted for this type, it is quite su...
Category
Vintage 1940s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique White Ground Tibetan Khaden Rug with Black Stepped Diamonds
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and elegant Tibetan rug in the khaden format distinguished by a snow white background decorated by an infinite repeat of parallel and offset rows of black stepped diamonds...
Category
Antique 1880s Tibetan Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Tribal Geometric Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The naive character of this charming, diminutive tribal rug is exactly what distinguishes it from the plethora of commercial oriental rugs. The diamond design field is completely fil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Moroccan Berber Miniature Prayer Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Moroccan rug woven in the hooked technique, employing wool together with recycled industrial fibres on a plastic foundation. Weaving of this type were apparently e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Islamic Moroccan and North Africa...
Materials
Wool, Cotton
18th Century Antique Alpujarra Spanish Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Alpujarra rugs were traditionally woven between the 15th and the 19th centuries in the villages of the Alpujarra district, located in southern Spain in the Granada region. These are ...
Category
Antique 1780s Spanish Moorish Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Indigo Blue Geometric Ningxia Chinese Rug with Rosettes in Compartments
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Chinese rug decorated with an all-over pattern of eight-petalled rosettes, joined together to form a lattice in the negative of which is the longevity motif, that ...
Category
Antique 1880s Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Signed French Art Deco Rug with Earth Tones
Located in Milan, IT
A rare antique French Art Deco rug, signed DTC, with a specular horizontal pattern composed of monochrome compartments beginning in ivory and ending in dark brown, with contours rang...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique French Cubist Art Deco Rug in Yellow, Tan and Dark Brown
Located in Milan, IT
A striking French Art Deco rug decorated by rectangular forms overlapping on various planes and creating a centralised motif of strong visual character. This type of pattern reflects the aesthetic ideals of Synthetic Cubism, the latter proving to be very influential in the development of the Art Deco design vocabulary, being adopted by leading carpet artists...
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Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage White and Black Beni Ouarain Berber Moroccan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Ouarain confederation is composed of seventeen tribes inhabiting the high mountain region of the northeastern Middle Atlas. Their rugs differ from other Berber weavings in t...
Category
Vintage 1980s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Open Field Beni Mguild Monochrome Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The rugs of the Beni Mguild tribe, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas mountains, are often distinguished by the clear tones of their monochromatic rugs...
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Mid-20th Century Moroccan Minimalist Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage White Ground Beni Mguild Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare white ground rug from the Beni Mguild tribe, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas mountains, showing a primitive rendition of the diamond pattern framed by one zig zag border ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Graphic Azilal Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A truly unusual Azilal rug, quite finely knotted in wool on a foundation of industrial cotton, with a pattern of vertical stripes in black, blue and red against an ivory background. ...
Category
Early 2000s Moroccan Post-Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Vintage Light Pink Beni Mguild Open Field Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The rugs of the Beni Mguild tribe, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas mountains, are often distinguished by the clear tones of their monochromatic rugs...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Minimalist Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage White Ground Eastern Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very interesting group of Berber weavings come from a tribe located close to the border with Algeria, in the eastern region of Morocco. The Ait Bou Ichaouen rugs from the settlemen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African ...
Materials
Wool
Rare Oversize Antique Bessarabian Kilim
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Bessarabian Kilims are very rarely found in large sizes, as most were woven in an almost standard 6 x 9 feet format. This stunning example maintains the wonderful palette and...
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Antique 1880s Ukrainian Rococo Revival Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Stunning Lacquer Red Chinese Art Deco Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
During the Art Deco period many designers commissioned their patterns to the city looms located in Tianjin through companies such as Nichols & Co. Some designs, such as this one, show a combination of European sensibility together with a Chinese influence, where we see Ming period vases framed by tone-on-tone floral elements on a rich lacquer red...
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Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ivory French Art Deco Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
An outstanding Art Deco carpet distinguished by an ivory background decorated by a large scale floral pattern drawn with intricate detail. Many Art Deco artists took patterns such as...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage French Modernist Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
This French Mid Century carpet has a pattern of concentric cartouches in red and black. The colours are arranged in such a way as to obtain a...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Light Yellow Samarkand Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The rugs of east Turkestan - called Khotan, Yarkand, Kashgar or more commonly Samarkand - have always represented the rarest and most coveted weavings both among interior designers a...
Category
Early 20th Century East Turkestani Khotan Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Post Modern Moroccan Boucherouite Boujad Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven by using exclusively recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, Boucherouite Berber rugs represent a unique facet of Moroccan textile art...
Category
Early 2000s Moroccan Post-Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Old and Unusual Beni Ouarain Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Ouarain confederation is composed of seventeen tribes inhabiting the high mountain region of the northeastern Middle Atlas. Their rugs differ from other Berber weavings in t...
Category
Vintage 1950s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Colourful Abstract Azilal Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Azilal rug, with a long and narrow format emphasising the visual impact of the polychrome thunderbolt like pattern. The pile is entirely composed of industrial cotton,...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Large Vintage Azilal Moroccan Berber Rug with Abstract Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The rugs from the Azilal region, located in the Moroccan central High Atlas, have been a relatively recent discovery. Distinguished by abstract, quasi-calligraphic patterns often on an ivory background, they differ from the white ground Middle Atlas carpets...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African...
Materials
Wool
Stunning Vintage Beni Mguild Moroccan Berber Rug in Rainbow Colours
Located in Milan, IT
The rugs of the Beni Mguild tribe, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas mountains, are woven with lanolin-rich wool and constructed in a particularly sturdy fashion. Here we see a si...
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Vintage 1970s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Unusual Vintage White Ground Azilal Moroccan Berber Prayer Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The rugs from the Azilal region, located in the Moroccan central High Atlas, have been a relatively recent discovery. Distinguished by abstract, quasi-calligraphic patterns often on an ivory background, they differ from the white ground Middle Atlas carpets...
Category
Vintage 1980s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Dramatic Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Outstanding Vintage Beni Mguild Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Mguild tribe is located in the mountainous region of the Moroccan Middle Atlas. Together with the Beni Ouarain, they represent the earliest Berber presence in that region as...
Category
Vintage 1950s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Distressed 18th Century Antique Ningxia Chinese Narrow Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisitely elegant early Temple runner from the Ningxia region in northwest China, commissioned in the early 18th century for a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. The pattern is compos...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Blue & White Mongolian Rug with Cloudbands and Longevity Symbols
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and beautiful antique northern Chinese rug, attributed to the Inner Mongolian region, distinguished by an ivory background decorated in two tones of indigo blue by a 'Shou' me...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Mongolian Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Deco Chinese Carpet by Nichols & Co.
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pi...
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Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Ivory and Blue American Coverlet Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A fine antique North American reversible cotton coverlet, distinguished by a repeat pattern of overlapping roundels containing geometric motifs in medium-light blue on an ivory backg...
Category
Vintage 1930s American American Craftsman North and South American Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Rare Antique Blue Kansu Oversize Carpet with Mandala Roundel and Infinite Discs
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and elegant oversized Kansu carpet, distinguished by a quincuncial pattern composed by a central Mandala roundel and four quartered elements in the corners, overlaid on a...
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Antique 1850s East Turkestani Khotan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
