Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

19th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet. 7' x 9'6 - 213 x 290

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 cm ) with a fuchsia color background

An antique East Turkestan Khotan accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 11"

19th Century W. Persian Bijar Carpet , Size: 11'3" x 18'

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Scholars Carpet ( 4' x 5'10" - 122 x 178 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 15'6" - 305 x 473 )

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpets 2'1'' x 11' 8'' - 64 x 355

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Fette-Li Workshop ( 4'8" x 6'9"- 142 x 205 )

Antique Chinese silk rug measures: 3' 2'' x 5' 2''.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'1'' x 9'5'' - 246 x 287 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'9" - 188 x 267 )

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8' x 10' - 245 x 305 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'8" - 248 x 295 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 5'9" x 6'8".

Antique Chinese Embroidery, Origin: China, Circa: Late 19th Century

Antique Khotan rug with soft green field. Measures: 5'2" x 10'8" Khotan rugs were produced in Eastern Turkestan. Khotan produced fine rugs in the 18th and 19th centuries. Cater...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9' 6" - 245 x 290 cm )

Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Atelier Dating From 1920s 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 cm

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with fuchsia color measuring 9'10" x 13'6"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' 3" x 12'

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Gallery Carpet (5'8" x 16'6" - 173 x 473 cm)

Antique Chinese - Peking rug. Measures: 3'0" x 5'10".

An antique Chinese Mongolian carpet from the early 20th century. Four columns of ivory stars of two distinct sizes decorate the grey-beige field which is framed by a cerulean blue bo...

Unusual Chinese Art Deco Carpet From 1920s measuring 9' x 11' 6" - 275 x 350 cm

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6" - 245 x 290 )

19th Century Pair of Chinese Silk Pictorial Kesi Textile ( 9" x 1' - 23 x 31 )

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 2' 2" x 2' 2" - 66 x 66 cm)

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 8'7" x 9'4" - 262 x 284 )

An antique Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 9".

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 8' 9" x11' 6"

Chinese - Art Deco. Measures: 12'0" x 16'10".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'7" - 269 x 353 )

Vintage 1980s Silk Chinese Art Deco Style Silk Carpet ( 6'2" x 9' - 188 x 275 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 13'8" - 297 x 417 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7' 10'' x 9' 7'' - 239 x 292 cm)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10'4" x 12'8" - 315 x 386 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 2" x 8' 9"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' x 17' - 335 x 518 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 11' 8'' x11' 11''

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Walter Nichols ( 11'2" x 15'4" - 340 x 467 )

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5'9" x 9'2" - 175 x 280 )

1920's Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" ) Paeonies everywhere, in the four corners overlapping pink field and celadon green border, in the larger central bouquet. Only one cloisonné vase in a corner. The pink is balanced top and bottom, but a larger plain area is on the left. One lotus blossom appears in the lower left flower bunch. An attractive almost antique...

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Mat ( 2' x 2'2" - 60 x 65 )

Vintage 1980s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 7' 9'' x 9' 8'' - 235 x 295 cm )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'3'' x 11'6'' - 282 x 351 )

Antique Art Deco rug Chinese rug rare Art Nouveau Peking Rug Blue 9' x 11'7" 274cm x 348cm Circa 1920 "This is a beautiful antique Art Deco Pe...

Vintage Chinese Dragon Carpet on Black Background ( 5' x 8' - 152 x 243 cm)

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'6'' x 12'4'' - 290 x 375 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 356 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10 3" x 12'9" - 312 x 389 )

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 12'4" x 14'6" - 375 x 420 cm ) Probably woven in 3rd quarter of 19th century making it among rare group of surviving early Peking ( Beijing ) car...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 2''x 14' 2'' - 340 x 432 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'9" - 183 x 267 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet 4'2'' x 6'9'' - 127 x 206

Early 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 6'5" 11'4" - 195 x 345 ) The k’ang is a heated seating platform in northern Chinese houses and it is often covered by a rug for extra comfort. Kang rugs are long and relatively narrow as on this circa 1825 rug from Ningxia or Suiyuan in northern China. The classic “Grains of rice” pattern...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'3" - 274 x 343 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 9" 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 East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 13' 1".