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Antique English Sky Blue Orientalist Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Clearly inspired by the vogue for oriental carpets which was at its peak around the early 20th century, this rug is distinguished by a polylobed medallion and pendants pattern floati...
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Early 20th Century English Belle Époque Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Shield Palmette Design
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Tur...
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Vintage 1950s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Teal Colored Sivas Room Sized Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined and sophisticated Sivas carpet, distinguished by an elegant teal color and framed by an arabesque border floating on a soft aubergine background. The delicately draw...
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Vintage 1930s Turkish Kirman Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Silk and Wool Modern Abstract Design Contemporary Rug
Located in Milan, IT
'Waterfall' is part of our Modern design contemporary rug collection. It is very finely hand knotted using high quality New Zealand hand-spun wool and over 50% of natural silk. It ca...
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2010s Indian Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Blue and White Rug with Mosaic Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by ancient Byzantine mosaics, this rug is distinguished by an infinite repeat geometric pattern composed of intricately drawn ivory elements on a denim blue background. The ...
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2010s Indian Other Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Art Nouveau Chinese Rug with Pastel Colors
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period distinguished by a tone-on-tone all over design of stylized lotus flowers connected to one another through a ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Nouveau Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fragment of the Antique Tiffany Chinese Carpet with Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
The only huge carpet known to have left the Imperial Palace in Beijing's Forbidden City, formerly in the Perenchio collection, is the famous Tiffany carpet, 9.99 metres long and once 9.68 metres wide, but since reduced to 7.20 metres wide. The carpet was originally made in three parts to fit around the columns of an unknown hall, and was reportedly last used in China in the private temple of the Empress Dowager Cixi. It was purchased for Louis Comfort Tiffany of New York, who owned it for more than thirty years. The Tiffany carpet is currently attributed to the end of the Ming dynasty and is thought to have been made in the first part of the 17th century. The field pattern is composed of a repeating design of rows of lotus flowers on a soft beige ground, originally deep red, overlaid in the centre with a medallion formed by a blue line edged in ivory and pinched in the four corners. The field is enclosed by two borders on the same colour, which reappears beyond the borders to create a wide band around the outer edge. The inner border is composed of a lattice of stepped squares filled with a swastika, with a large rosette at each intersection. The outer border is a double version of the swastika fret. A section of the field is shown here, and a few other fragments survive.
The Tiffany carpet clearly forms a link between the carpets made during the late 16th century and those made in the late 17th century. Examples with an identical flower design or the same specific ‘heavy’ weave are now referred to as the ‘Tiffany’ type after this most important carpet. Other carpets of this type include one in the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Tiffany type...
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Antique Early 17th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ginko Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
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2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Quadrato Magico Reverse Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed By Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Corallo Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan design week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Arabesco Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Trigono Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tangeri Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Conchiglia Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Istrice Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Pastel Coloured Turkish Oushak Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The soft palette of this antique Anatolian Oushak is characteristic of this group of carpets from the late Ottoman period. The pale salmon rose background is embellished by an ogival...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Pale Pink Austrian Savonnerie Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and beautiful Savonnerie carpet woven in a Viennese workshop at around the turn of the century, delicately decorated by tone-on-tone pastel motifs in the romantic floral style...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Romantic Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ivory Background Indian All-Over Design Amritsar Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Amritsar had the reputation of being a very prestigious weaving centre during the Mughal Empire. Its 19th century production is characterised by pastel shades, large-scale patterns a...
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Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Ivory Background Agra Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Agra carpets have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. These were typically commissioned by British nobility during the colonial period to adorn thei...
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Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Square Chinese Art Nouveau Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period characterised by an all-over pattern of tone on tone lotus flowers scrolling on a soft cream background within a circula...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Nouveau Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Silk Kayseri Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Kayseri rug from eastern Anatolia, hand knotted entirely in pure silk, distinguished by an all over pattern of stylized leafs and palmettes on an ivory background...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Silk
Antique Minimalist Graphic Tribal Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A dazzling flat-weave distinguished by a rich red open field background flanked by polychrome vertical stripes. Kilims of this kind, although belonging to the material culture of nea...
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Vintage 1920s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Tribal Sofreh Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Sofreh flat-weaves are among the most prized possessions among the material culture of near eastern tribal people. These are employed as presentation textiles for food offerings when...
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Vintage 1940s Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven by the Kurdish people inhabiting the region between eastern Anatolia and the southern Caucasus, this sturdily woven small sized kilim was possibly a sofreh, which means that it...
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Vintage 1930s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Modernist Tribal Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woolen structures made by mankind, some of the earliest we know were found in the 'kurgans' of Central Asia, decorated by a variety of zoomorphic motifs typ...
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Vintage 1940s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Denim Blue Chinese Rug with Tone on Tone Scrolling Leaf Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined antique Chinese carpet, distinguished by a subtle tone on tone pattern of scrolling leafs in sky blue on a denim blue background, reminiscent of the most sophisticat...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Modernist Vintage Square Rug with Polychrome Thunderbolt Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and unusual village rug characterized by a design composed of parallel multicolored zig-zag elements similar to thunderbolts. Patterns such as this were probably inspired...
Category
Vintage 1940s Turkish Art Deco Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Minimalist Small Sofreh Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine flat-weave with a jewel-like quality that is almost impossible to convey by picture. Distinguished by the use of a very precious type of wool which feels almost like silk...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Striped Tribal Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This stunning tribal kilim is characterised by two panels each containing an array of wonky red horizontal stripes juxtaposed against stripes in natural camel wool arranged in differ...
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Vintage 1920s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Modernist Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A graphic tribal kilim characterized by a simplification of the pattern, reduced to three concentric, polychrome hexagons arranged across a striated apricot background. Distinguished...
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Mid-20th Century Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Graphic Tribal Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning tribal kilim distinguished by a neutral open field and embellished by a checkerboard polychrome border. A great example of how tribal art sometimes embraces modernism, ant...
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Vintage 1940s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Arts & Crafts Wilton Oversize Rug with Green Architectural Border
Located in Milan, IT
A Minimalist Arts & Crafts carpet characterized by a completely open camel background, framed by a narrow green border decorated by elegantly rendered architectural motifs.
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Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Contemporary Silk Rug with Ancient Byzantine Mosaic Pattern
By Alberto Levi
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely finely knotted carpet woven completely in pure silk, with a design taken from the floor mosaics of the Byzantine period. The aging effect is obtained by weaving the patt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Classical Roman Indian Rugs
Materials
Silk
Antique Spanish Art Nouveau Orientalist Square Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Art Nouveau carpet decorated by a central medallion inspired by Oriental rugs dominating over a brilliant red open field, with paisley motifs embellishing the corn...
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Vintage 1910s Spanish Art Nouveau Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Square Chinese Rug with Abstract Design
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual rug, reminiscent of a contemporary painting, decorated by an apparently casual miscellany of polychrome wools. Examples of this type hav...
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Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Anatolian Copper Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and relatively early example of central Anatolian Tulu rug, distinguished by a completely open field in a very unusual shade of copper. Tulus of this type are among the earlie...
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Vintage 1930s Turkish Tulu Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Art Deco Chinese Rug with Abstract Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and colored wools is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of these were sourced directly...
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Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Indigo Blue Chinese Geometric Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Chinese rug in excellent condition, distinguished by a tone-on-tone Indigo blue palette and by a geometric pattern based on an infinite repeat, honeycom...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Central Asian Minimalist Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and unusual Uzbek rug from Central Asia distinguished by a warm and rich red open field background, a natural color extracted from the madder pla...
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Early 20th Century Uzbek Minimalist Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Indigo Beni Mguild Moroccan Geometric Design Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An authentic old Berber rug from the Middle Atlas Mountains, home of the Beni Mguild tribal confederacy, who are known to weave the best quality wool carpets of Morocco. Characterize...
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Mid-20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Midcentury Ivory/Black Scandinavian Modernist Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Swedish pile rug with colour and design reminiscent of Beni Ouarain Berber rugs, suggesting that Moroccan carpets were influencing Scandinavian Modern design quite ear...
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Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique French Savonnerie Rug with Ivory Background
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by an ivory background punctuated by floral elements in pastel shades, this antique French Savonnerie carpet is characteristic of the late Baroque style which was preva...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Aubusson Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Wilton Rug with Arts & Crafts Pattern in Pastel Colors, circa 1910
Located in Milan, IT
Following the closure of the Axminster manufactory in Devonshire in 1835, the demand for floral carpets made in the Rococo Revival style was supplied by the Wilton Royal Carpet...
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Vintage 1910s English Arts and Crafts Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Room Size American Hooked Rug with Soft Colors
Located in Milan, IT
Following the fashion in the U.S.A. for French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets at the turn of the previous century, workshops were commissioned to weave hooked rugs in this style. Th...
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Early 20th Century American American Craftsman North and South American ...
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Dramatic Boucherouite Moroccan Berber Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Boucherouite Moroccan Berber Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Unusual 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
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Cotton
Open Field Ivory Art Deco Chinese Rug, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
From the large output of Chinese carpets from Tianjin during the 1930s, only a very few are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these extremely ra...
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Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Berber Moroccan Ourika Valley Eye Design Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with natural, undyed wool, flat-weaves such as the one illustrated here are characteristic of the Berber people located in the Ourika Valley, in the Moroccan High Atlas region....
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Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Italian Design Rug by Lyda Levi, Milan 1960s
Located in Milan, IT
Lyda Levi (1922-2011) was a leading figure of the post World War II Milanese design movement. In 1946 she collaborated in organising the prestigious 8th edition of Milan’s Triennale ...
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Central Asian Fur Rug
Located in Milan, IT
This is a rare example of a 'postak', used by the Kirghiz people inhabiting the Pamir mountains, made up of strips of animal fur hand-stitched together to form a pattern. It represen...
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Early 20th Century Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Fur
Vintage Mejjat Berber 'Desert Sand' Flat-Weave Haik Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven haik from the Mejjat tribe, located in the most southern part of the Moroccan Anti Atlas region. Distinguished for their blanket-like handle and for their unique icono...
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Vintage 1960s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
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Wool
Mid-Century Modern Central Anatolian Kilim Rug with Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
An unusual flat-weave from the Karapinar region in central Anatolia decorated by vertical stripes in the tones of ivory, grey, camel, yellow and black.
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Vintage 1950s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Minimalist Art Deco Chinese Rug 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...
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Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Rug with Abstract Design
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Chinese and East Asian Rugs
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Wool
Antique French Geometric Art Deco Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An Art Deco rug distinguished by a repeat pattern of honey-arranged ivory lozenges knotted with a raised pile, contrasting with a similarly arranged cluster of apricot lozenges woven...
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Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Blue Green Indian Agra with All-over Scrolling Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
Agra carpets have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. They were commissioned by British nobility during the colonial period to adorn their castles a...
Category
Antique 1880s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Light Green Open Field Indian Amritsar Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a very unusual light green background, this fine Amritsar carpet is distinguished by a small medallion with pendants layered onto a large cartouche acting and an ope...
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Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
