Manhattan - Rugs and Carpets

A vintage Indian oversize Dhurrie flat-weave carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. This very large carpet has a checkerboard pattern that is e...

A vintage Turkish Konya carpet from the mid-20th century.

A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a field in several shades of light and dark brown and white dots. The ivory medallion consists of a yellow a...

This Tiger Sikkim Brown rug embodies a traditional and versatile pattern, both contemporary and timelessly classic. Shown in gold and brown, colored with vegetable dyes. Joseph Carin...

Matching Pair of mid 20th century Turkish rugs attributed from caucasian kazak patterns from the late 19th century measuring 2'4'' x 3'3'' and 2'5'' x 3'3'' respectively

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 )

Kurdish runner from north west Persia (Iran),Kurdistan Age: circa 1885 Measurements: 9′.9"x3′.9" (297×114 cm) The subtly abrashed madder red field displays ten octagonal Memling-G...

Made in Iran with hand-spun wool, our Mazandaran Collection highlights the minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. The collection was inspired by the kilim...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 10" x 11' 8".

A Franco-Flemish mythological harvest tapestry from the 17th century, featuring the Roman goddess of the hunt, Diana, aiding people who are fishing in...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 2"

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 9" 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 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...

Stunning Tribal Geometric Antique Persian Heriz Area Rug, Country of origin: Persia, Circa date: 1920

A vintage Turkish Anatolian pictorial rug from the mid-20th century.

Four bouquet-centered corner cartouches anchor emphatic giant dark brown pointed L-shapes. The small eggshell field is gently convex or lobed and shows the inevitable rose bouquet in...

A vintage Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century in grey among other neutral colored shades. Measures: 3' 2" x 13' 10".

An antique Persian Lavar oriental rug, size 26'8" x 18'3", circa 1890. This exquisite oversized handwoven carpet is a one of a kind ...

Beautiful Room Size Antique Blue Chinese Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Chinese Rug, Circa date: 1920. Size: 8 ft 2 in x 9 ft 8 in (2.49 m...

1930s English Art Deco Carpet Designed by Noel Simmons (9' x 11'10" - 275 x360)

The borderless rich red field displays baskets and porcelain vases overflowing with flowers in the corners and a pointed elliptical wreath with still more floral extrusions toward th...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Very much in the style of mid-century modern with its elongated whimsical oval pattern belonging to the period of the atomic art...

A vintage Turkish Sparta rug that has been overdyed teal with hand-knotted raised piles to form the 'pseudo' medallion, spandrels, and border of this modern folk piece.

Berber Moroccan rug 23'6" x 16'9" (716 x 511 cm).

Early 20th Century Silk & Metallic Threads Souf Kashan Carpet ( 4' 3'' x 6' 3'' - 130 x 190 cm )

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 10'2" x 12'8" - 310 x 385 )

A late 18th century Antique Turkish Ghiordes rug stitched onto a canvas like Linen. This item can either be used as a wall piece or floor covering. It can be walked on too if desired...

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Carpet with Phoenix 5'6" x 9' - 168 x 274

Vintage Persian Malayer Runner 3'6 X 16'10". Antique & Vintage rugs from Malayer, east of Hamadan, could be considered top quality Hamadan’s and they share similar structural aspects...

A border-less soft gold ground of this Tianjin 1930s carpet has a blue fretwork in the upper right corner and a facing four claw dragon in the lower left. This almost Minimalist comp...

The design centers on a grand stepped medallion with a palmette and cruciform motif, framed by a balanced array of angular vines and stylized floral elements. The surrounding field, ...

Amazing 17th Century Antique French Silk And Wool Verdure Tapestry, Country of origin: France, Circa date: 17th Century

The light straw field of this good condition vintage central Anatolian kellegi shows a windblown, floating flower and leaf all-over textile pattern. Borderless. Sand, light brown and...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 7'11" x 9' 4"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'6" - 265 x 350 )

Early 20th Century S.W. Persian Afshar Carpet ( 4'2" x 6' - 127 x 183 ) Afshar weavers excel at repurposing textile patterns as rug designs. In this case as rust ground displays cruc...

Antique Peking rug Chinese Art Deco rug pink purple handmade Chinese rug 2x3 2'4" x 3'4" 71cm x 102cm "This is a beautiful antique...

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...

An antique Persian Senneh accent rug handmade during the early 20th century with 9 panels decorated by 2 individual design of cats. Measures: 4' 6" x 6' 3".

The slightly abrashed rust-red madder field shows an allover pattern of repeating open palmette quatrefoils outlined in cream, with semi-geometric four-way motives between and rosett...

A modern Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. This contemporary borderless Turkish rug features 7 leafy vines over an aubergine (eggplant) purple colo...

Antique Persian Malayer Oriental rug in Small Size with Ivory Medallion & Border An antique Persian Malayer oriental rug, circa 1920. Size 6'6" x 4'5". This fine hand-knotted wool...

This rug resembles the rare and collectible antique Bakshaish rugs that were produced in the 19th century and earlier. Due to their limited availability, NASIRI revived the ancient d...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3' x 5' - 91 x 152 )

A modern Turkish Patchwork rug created with antique and vintage carpet fragments. The white colored field is made up entirely of a vintage Turkish Kili...

Antique Abusson Rug, Size: 8' 8''x11' 0''

Vintage 1930s American Braided Rug ( 8' - 245 cm)

Antique and extremely enigmatic Bakshayesh rug featuring a striking geometric medallion design set within a vertically oriented rectangular field. The central medallion is a large tr...

Our Kalach flatweave rugs resemble the rare and collectible antique Khalaj kilims by a Turkic group based south of Isfahan that were produced in the 19th century and earlier. Due to ...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 3" x 12' 8"

ntique Persian Pictorial Tabriz rug, 13'3 x 20'5. The tradition of animals in a dense forest as a Persian carpet design goes back to the 16th century and is one of the main inspirations in the revival of rug weaving in Iran, especially Tabriz in the northwest, beginning in the later 19th century. The subdued greyish mauve ground is inhabited by a veritable menagerie of wild beasts: lions, dromedary camels, bears, gazelles, cranes beavers, rabbits and tree climbing leopards...

Collectible antique vintage Moroccan shag rug in excellent condition. Featuring a geometric diamond pattern over a deeply saturated violet or aubergine purple background. The jewel-t...

Antique Mohajeran Sarouk Oriental Rug, circa 1910, Large size An antique Mohajeran Sarouk oriental rug, size 17'0" x 11'0", circa 1910. This lovely hand-knotted wool rug features an...

Early 20th Century Navajo Rug ( 5'9" x 9'3" - 175 x 282 ) The attractively abrashed natural light grey field shows a barely poled six flattened lozenge central motif with internal tr...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with red color Measures: 9'4" x 11'4".

This ecru ground Turkish village creation shows five columns of connected open brown outlined lozenges, with a dark brown thick horizontal line partway up. Brown triangle border. Coa...

Mid-20th century Moroccan 'Boujad' carpet.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'10'' x 14' - 270 x 425 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'10" x 9'8" - 239 x 295 )

This original Moroccan rug is styled after the Beni Ourain rugs that were produced by the nomadic Berber tribes in North Africa for centuries. Beni Ourain rugs are identified by the...

This antique Persian Tabriz rug is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I through extensive research and travels. Located in northwest Iran, the city of Tabriz was the earliest capital o...