Pearl City Antiques Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A chic late 20th century Tibetan hand-knotted rug with a gray background and an all-over scrolling vine and stylized flower pattern woven in crimson, pink, cream, orange, and dark gr...

This traditional hand-woven Chinese rug has a café-au-lait field with meandering rust vine issuing polychrome sunflowers and delicate stylized leaves, in a plain rust red border.

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 8" Chinese Rugs & Carpet: The craft of the hand-knotted carpet in China, and the surrounding areas including Mongolia and Tibet, extends into the early centuries of the first millennium, C.E., but we really have a firm grasp only beginning in the later 16th century with large, very coarsely woven carpets, often depicting dragons, created for the Imperial Forbidden City palaces. Chinese carpets have always been commercial and there are no tribal groups responsible for any of the carpet weaving strains. When the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, with no Imperial patrons, production moved to the city of Ningxia in north central China where several workshops turned out more finely woven pieces for the Mandarins of the administrative Ch’ing bureaucracy and well-to-do merchants. Ningxia was the major Chinese carpet center up through most of the 19th century, with first allover and then medallion designs on cotton foundations in medium weaves. Palettes were initially limited to yellows, dark blue and cream, but later widened to include reds, browns and even green. These antiques were the first Chinese carpets to be exported to the West and they fitted in well with the craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the second half of the 19th century. Ningxia also wove shaped and rectangular small rugs for saddle underlays, chair (“throne”) seats and shaped backs, pillar carpets...

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 90 x 152 )

Tibetan Saddle Rug, Early 20th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 4'6" L x 2'4" W Period: Early 20th Century Origin: Tibet Condition: Exce...

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...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful indigo field with a pagoda under a tree on an island surrounded by a grey border with blossoming peonies, chrysanthemum, a...

Antique Blue-Indigo Tibetan Khaden Rug with Peonies, Late 19th Century This evocative Tibetan khaden, or sleeping rug, draws large stylized peonies inspired by Chinese textile desig...

This vintage, circa 1940, Chinese rug has a sandy-yellow plain field with light blue and ivory open spandrels depicting stylized floral and auspicious motifs around a pastoral landsc...

This Checkerboard meditation rug originates from Tibet and dates to the early part of the 20th century. It is hand-knotted and crafted from naturally dyed wool from the highlands of Tibet. The rug was composed using a stunning mix of coloured squares. It is these checkerboard rugs that are highly sought after for these distinct patterns that evoke modernity. A great addition to any space, the present Tibetan Checkerboard rug...

Early 20th century antique Khotan rug with paired diamond medallions, rug mp-39e, country of origin / type: Turkey / Khotan, circa 1920 This delicately ...

A charming early 20th century Chinese Peking rug with a central peony medallion amidst a field of more peonies and surrounded by a wide complex border containing geometric and floral...