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Wool & Silk Vintage Chinese Tabriz Carpet with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
79116 Vintage Chinese Tabriz Rug, 04'00 x 05'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool and silk vintage Chinese Tabriz rug is a remarkable fusion of Persian artistry and Chinese craftsman...
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Late 20th Century Tabriz East Asian More Carpets
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Wool, Silk
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Dragon Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a dragon in black, blue, red, goldenrod, and light blue-grey over a cream-white borderless field.
Measures: 1' 3" x 1' 6"
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 with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings.
Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is.
There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches.
The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet.
Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Medium Vintage Aubusson Style Area Rug Traditional Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Wembley, GB
This beautifully handwoven Aubusson rug is sure to make a great accent piece in any room it’s introduced too. An ivory blue color makes up the background of this elegant area rug. Th...
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1990s Aubusson East Asian More Carpets
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Organic Material, Cotton, Wool
Art Deco Chinese Carpet, circa 1920
Located in Rome, IT
A very fine Art Deco Chinese carpet, circa 1920. Cream background and blue decoration.
Measures: cm 530 x 310
Proveniente from an Italian aristocratic estate.
Category
Early 20th Century East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Vintage Tibetan Area Rug with Diamond Checkerboard Pattern, Harlequin Design Rug
Located in Dallas, TX
76665 Vintage Tibetan Area Rug with Diamond Checkerboard Pattern, Harlequin Design Rug 08'10 x 11'10. This hand-knotted wool and silk vintage Tibe...
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Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern East Asian More Carpets
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Wool, Silk
Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug with Ming Dynasty Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77449 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'03 x 09'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug draws inspiration from the sophisticated designs of Helen Fette-Li, k...
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Early 20th Century Ming East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
1920's Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Carpet
Located in Dallas, TX
77585 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 02'04 x 04'07. This exceptional hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug captures the essence of classical Chinese symbolism and a...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Peking Pictorial Carpet, 02'00 x 03'11
Located in Dallas, TX
79071 Antique Chinese Peking Pictorial Rug, 02'00 x 03'11. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking pictorial rug masterfully captures the essence of traditional Chinese artistr...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Maximalist Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug with Dragon Border
By Walter Nichols
Located in Dallas, TX
21679 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 06'01 x 08'09. Chinese Art Deco rugs originated in China during the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the bold geometric patterns, vibrant colors, and l...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Pictorial Art Deco Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design.
Measures: 9' 6" x 12' 1".
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Vintage Brown Tibetan Accent Rug with Minimalist Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76593, vintage brown Tibetan accent rug with Minimalist style. This hand knotted wool vintage brown Tibetan accent rug with Minimalist style features a lustrous, plush wool pile in v...
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Late 20th Century Minimalist East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Silk Chinese Peking Rug with Modern Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77773 antique Silk Chinese Peking rug with Modern Chinoiserie style 02'01 x 04'00. This hand-knotted silk antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open center fretwork medallion...
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Early 20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian More Carpets
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Silk
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 8".
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77238 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style 09'00 x 11'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a constellation of seven flowering vases...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Handmade Carpet Aubusson Style Rug, Extra Large Traditional Wool Tapestry Rug
Located in Wembley, GB
Featuring intricately woven motifs and emblems on a mixture of red and deep brown backgrounds through the centre. The handmade carpet then enclosed by a highly-detailed layered borde...
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Late 20th Century Baroque East Asian More Carpets
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Wool, Cotton, Organic Material
Carpet Oggian Italian Tiger M (Shaped) in Acrylic Hand Tufted by Marco Oggian
By Qeeboo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Continues the development of the carpets family with a new collection designed by Marco Oggian, characterized with a variety of bright colours and strong geometries. Discover Carpet ...
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21st Century and Contemporary East Asian More Carpets
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Acrylic
Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Rustic Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
78131 Distressed Antique Chinese peking rug with Rustic Chinoiserie Style 12'02 x 18'02. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open medallion decorated...
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Early 20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Vintage Tibetan Brown Rug with Minimalist Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76595 Vintage Tibetan Brown Rug with Minimalist Style. Take a timeless, tailored modern design, mix in a dash of abrash and variegated shades of warm brown in this vintage Tibetan ru...
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Late 20th Century Modern East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Distressed Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Art Deco Style
Located in Dallas, TX
78129 Distressed Antique Chinese Peking rug with Art Deco Style 10'01 x 13'03. With its effortless beauty and rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Pe...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Silk Chinese Rug Gold Geometric Overall Silk Rug Vintage Art Nouveau Rug
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Art Nouveau Rug Silk Chinese Rug
Art Deco Red
5' X 8' 155cm x 239cm
Circa 1965
" High quality vintage piece that can be use...
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1960s Vintage East Asian More Carpets
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Silk
Antique Chinese Art Deco Oval Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style
By Walter Nichols
Located in Dallas, TX
77328 antique Chinese Art Deco oval rug with traditional chinoiserie style. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a plain neut...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
1920's Antique Earth-Tone Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'02 x 09'05
Located in Dallas, TX
78303 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'02 x 09'05. This magnificent hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug transports viewers to a bygone era of exquisite artistry and vibran...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
78130 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style 08'03 x 09'08. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open medallion decorated with ...
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Early 20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
1920's Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Traditional Style
By Walter Nichols
Located in Dallas, TX
70718 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 03'00 x 04'10. Emanating the quiet elegance of a bygone era, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug unfolds like a page from a poetic...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 7".
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Baotou Indigo Rug, circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Antique Chinese Baotou indigo rug, circa 1900. The central field with an intricate lattice work of Traditional Gau (Amulet) design in two shades of blue...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
French Aubusson Cushion Cover Vintage Rug Vase Pillow Cushion
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique rug vintage pillowcase zipper cushion handmade needlepoint pillow cover, view one of the most comprehensive collections of the decorative p...
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1990s Aubusson East Asian More Carpets
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Wool, Cotton, Organic Material
Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols
By Walter Nichols
Located in Dallas, TX
77760 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols, 12'03 x 19'08. Aside from the rich cultural symbolism attached to each image, the ambiguo...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
An antique Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 5".
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Carpet Oggian Blue Panther M (Shaped) in Acrylic Hand Tufted by Marco Oggian
By Qeeboo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Continues the development of the carpets family with a new collection designed by Marco Oggian, characterized with a variety of bright colours and strong geometries. Discover Carpet ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian More Carpets
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Simple Design Tibetan Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful light colors Tibetan Nepal rug, circa 1980 with a simple design and beautiful yellow field, blue and pink, entirely hand knotted with wool velv...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
1890 Antique Agra Rug Antique Agra Amritsar Handmade Agra Rug Geometric
Located in New York, NY
1890 Antique Agra Rug Antique Agra Amritsar Handmade Agra Rug Geometric 9x12
Measures: 9'1" x11'9"
277cm x 358cm
Circa 1890
"Magnificent antique Agra Amritsar Rug wi...
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1890s Antique East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Peking Area Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77260 Antique Chinese Peking Area rug with Traditional Chinoiserie style. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking area rug features a group of th...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug with Cranes and Deer
Located in Dallas, TX
77584 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial rug with Cranes and Deer 02'04 x 04'08. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug fe...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Chinese Peking Long Gallery Carpet in Cream & Blue
Located in New York, NY
An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue.
Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 3"
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 with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings.
Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is.
There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches.
The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet.
Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Worn Antique Khotan Area Size Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century antique Khotan rug
4'1'' x 6'10''
Category
1910s Anglo-Japanese Vintage East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Distressed Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style
By Walter Nichols
Located in Dallas, TX
77407, distressed antique Chinese Peking rug with Traditional chinoiserie style 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Peking area rug...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Chinese Pictorial Dragon Room Size Carpet in Green & Ruby Red
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field.
Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Zabihi Collection Art Deco Large Flower Mat Size Rug
Located in New York, NY
An authentic full pile condition mid-20th century, Chinese Art Deco Mta rug with a large floral design on a green field
Measures: 2' x 2'10''.
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug with Pictorial Design
Located in Dallas, TX
77557 antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Pictorial design. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco pictorial rug features a variety of traditional Chinese motifs spread across...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Vintage French Aubusson Savonnerie Design Area Rug with Regal Louis XV Style
By Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, Eugène-Pierre Gourdet
Located in Dallas, TX
77314 Vintage French Aubusson Savonnerie Design Area Rug with Regal Louis XV Style 10'00 x 14'00. Reminisce of the ceiling in the dining roo...
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Blue Vintage Chinese Minimalist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A minimalist one-of-a-kind vintage Chinese rug in blues.
Measures: 2'3'' x 2'5''.
Category
20th Century Minimalist East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Handmade Carpet, Square Chinese Rug Art Deco Rug, Antique Rug Wool Carpet
Located in Wembley, GB
This fine wool rug was woven by hand in the 1930s in China. The central design features an abstract swirl pattern made up of blue, pink and orange accent colours that contrast elegantly with the orange background. This has then been framed by a repeat pattern yellow and orange border. This fine oriental rug combines simple colours with a symmetrical, elegant medallion design to create a sophisticated surface that can add impeccable style and grace to any environment.
The raw materials used are of the finest quality, with only the best hand-spun silk and cotton dyed with organic dyeing techniques and delicately woven on looms to create this elegant piece. Constructed with a traditional hand-knotting technique used for generations due to the durable rugs the technique produces.
Place this piece in a cosy classic interior or a sophisticated modern style for an instant uplift. This fine wool rug can be used as a bedroom rug, living room rug or entranceway rug. This piece is in excellent condition, clean and ready for use in any home or office environment.
Handmade Carpet, Square Chinese Rug Art Deco Rug, Antique Rug...
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1930s Khotan Vintage East Asian More Carpets
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Wool, Organic Material, Natural Fiber, Cotton
Zabihi Collection Early 20th Century Khotan Pomegranate Full Pile Rug
Located in New York, NY
A full pile excellent condition early 20th century Khotan rug. Gray ground, red accent pomegranates throughout with a lavender multi band border,
circa 1920, measures: 5'11" x 9'.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chippendale East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug with Samurai and Wild Horse
Located in Dallas, TX
77592 antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial rug with samurai and wild horse 02'06 x 04'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style and Pagoda Design
Located in Dallas, TX
77408 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style and Pagoda Design 08'03 x 09'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a large pictorial scene of a pagod...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Vintage Chinese Art Deco 9' x 12' Room Size Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco rug handmade during the mid-20th century predominantly in red, green, and antique white, and with accent colors in silver, beige, pink, blue, and orange , ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Art Deo Pictorial Rug with Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77583 antique Chinese Art Deo Pictorial rug with Chinoiserie style 08'11 x 11'08. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco pictorial rug features a colo...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 4' 3" x 6' 11".
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9".
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Vintage Gold Tibetan Area Rug with Modern Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76872, vintage gold Tibetan area rug with Modern traditional style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Tibetan area rug features an all-over pattern of na...
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Late 20th Century Modern East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Maximalist Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug with Dragon Border
Located in Dallas, TX
53874 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'06 x 10'08. Chinese Art Deco rugs originated in China during the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the bold geometric patterns, vibrant colors, and l...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Pictorial Accent Rug of Horses
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese pictorial accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century of horses prancing in a field over a dark midnight blue background.
Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 6".
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Chinese Peking Wedding Rug with Chinoiserie Style, 11'01 x 15'05
Located in Dallas, TX
77267 Antique Chinese Peking Wedding Rug, 11'01 x 15'05. Behold, the hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug that will transport you to a world of ele...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Wool & Silk Vintage Chinese Tabriz Carpet with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
79115 Vintage Chinese Tabriz Rug, 03'11 x 06'05. This magnificent hand-knotted wool and silk vintage Chinese Tabriz rug stands as a testament to the artistry and craftsmanship that h...
Category
Late 20th Century Tabriz East Asian More Carpets
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Wool, Silk
Antique Blue Chinese Peking Carpet
Located in Dallas, TX
77544 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'00 x 11'05. This antique Chinese Peking rug, meticulously hand-knotted from wool, showcases a striking design with a rounded medallion gracefully...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian More Carpets
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Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Chinese Ningxia Square Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4"
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 with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings.
Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is.
There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches.
The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet.
Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Chinese Hooked Seascape Pictorial Rug with Coastal Farmhouse Style
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78072 Vintage Chinese Hooked Seascape Pictorial Rug, 02'06 x 03'11. Chinese hooked rugs, also known as Chinese deco rugs or Chinese Art Deco rugs, are decorative rugs originating from China and popularized during the 1920s and 1930s Art Deco period. They are characterized by bold geometric patterns, vibrant colors and exotic motifs inspired by traditional Chinese art such as dragons and pagodas. These rugs are typically made in provinces like Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, as well as cities like Beijing and Tianjin, and are valued by collectors for their historical significance and distinctive aesthetic appeal.
Combining the charm of a coastal cottage with the timeless allure of classic farmhouse aesthetics, this vintage hooked seascape pictorial rug sets a serene tone reminiscent of seaside escapes. Its abrashed blue field serves as the canvas for a delightful seascape pictorial, featuring an array of marine life including kissing fish...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art East Asian More Carpets
Materials
Wool