Antique Blue Chinese Peking Rug, Yellow Field, Blue and Orange Border and Tones

This attractive Peking scatter features a cerulean blue field uniformly adorned with seven paeonies, with attendant leaves and stems. Eggshell border with vases on stands, bonsai pla...

Ningxia Pillar rug, XIX century. This special hand knotted carpet was wrapped around a pillar or a column of the buddhis temples or in the imperial palaces in China, Mongolia and Tibet ( in Tibet they were called Katum). This carpet surrounds the column creating a refined optical effect . This item brings in its decoration, a very important pattern of the imperial Chinese culture. Starting from the bottom, we can appreciate the proportion and the balance of the so called “Rainbow border”, consisting of parallel wavy stripes in a soft lovely combination of colors, radiating from the edge of the field. This kind of border was used only at the bottom of the rug in conjunction with the “sacred mountain” motif. The center of this pillar carpet is decorated with two opposite dragons linked by a bold “ruyi cloud” (in Chinese Ruyi means “as you wish”). The Ruyi cloud motif is used in earlier Chinese than are drifting clouds. The dragons represented in this pillar carpet, bring five claws, synonym of noble and monastic importance. The Chinese imperial carpets...

This is an early 20th-century Nichols Chinese carpet, characterized by its vibrant color palette and intricate design elements. The carpet showcases a striking golden-yellow field ad...

Antique Chinese Rug Size: 13'4" × 14'9" (406 × 449 cm) Steeped in cultural symbolism and remarkable craftsmanship, this square-shaped antique Chinese rug from the 1870s is a masterfu...