Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 7'6" x 10'4" - 228 x 315 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 5'2" x 8' - 158 x 244 )

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 5'6" x 10' - 168 x 305 )

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan room Size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 11" x 12' 0".

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, size: 2'0" x 2'0".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 cm ) The lemony gold field, with a dark blue border, shows a characteristic group of Chinese motives, three different hanging o...

Early 20th Century Central Asian Khotan Carpet ( 5'2" x 8'3" - 157 x 252 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Dragon Carpet ( 6' x 8'6" - 183 x 259 )

The warm ecru field presents a widely dispersed, symmetric layout of butterflies and small floral sprays, with deep, triangular vine arabesque corners anchored by petal peonies. Ecr...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'9" x 9' - 267 x 275 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 5' x 8'4" - 152 x 254 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11' x 14'4" - 335 x 437 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, Size: 2'6" x 8'10".

Antique Chinese Silk rug, size: 5'6" x 7'9".

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

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

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 7'9" x 9'4".

Early 19th Century W. Chinese Saddle Cover 2'2" x 4'3".

An antique East Turkestan pictorial vase Khotan rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 7".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4'2" x 7' - 127 x 213 ) A salmon field is centered by a bold Shou (good luck) medallion within a wreath of bats and ensuite bat corners. A narrow pla...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11'9" x 17' - 358 x 518 )

Antique Chinese Horse Cover, Size:2'2"x4'9"

19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 10' x 11'4" - 305 x 345 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 358 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug ( 3' x 5' - 91 x 152 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 11'x 22' 2" -

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 4' 0'' x 6' 9''.

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 8'9" x 11'4".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 297 )

Early 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Pillar Carpet ( 3'4" x 8'8" - 102 x 264 )

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet

Beautifully decorative antique Khotan rug, Country Of Origin: East Turkestan, Circa date: Early 20th century. Size: 8 ft x 16 ft (2.44 m x 4.88 m)

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Baotou Scholars Carpet 4' x 6'9'' - 122 x 206

Vintage Khotan Gallery size rug, 6'5 x 13'1. An Antique Khotan with a natural abrash on the borders. An abrash is a natural change in color that occurs when different dyes are used and gives uniqueness an extra beauty to the rug. The rug has been given a wash to soften the colors. Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan, was a gathering point for rugs woven in western China, among them those from the Silk Road city of Khotan. Kashgar and Yarkand were other prominent rug weaving centres in Xinjiang province. The pomegranate tree stemming from a vase, an ancient oriental fertility symbol, is a common design on Khotan carpets. Many Khotans...

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 12'6" x 13'4".

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

1930s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 14' x 17'6" - 427 x 533 )

Vintage Chinese Silk Rug ( 4' x 6' 3" - 122 x 190 cm )

A vintage Chinese Peking room size carpet handmade during the late 20th century in blue, mauve, and cream. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9".

A Mid-Century Chinese Deco carpet.

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 6' x 11' 8" - 183 x 355 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 8".

The grayish mauve field displays full and half diamonds and a surround of small round flowers on angular stems. The border and some field elements abrash from mauve to sienna brown. ...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 6'4" x 8'6".

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 2" x 17' 10".

Antique Chinese Rug, Size: 9' 6" x14' 6"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 8'' - 275 x 355 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'10" - 280 x 360 )

The ecru field show a round rock and phoenix motif with spaciously set branches, sprays and butterflies, within colourful openwork floral corners. Main dark blue and inner medium bl...

1930s N Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

This border-less trompe l’oeil rug displays a soft red scroll rolled back in one corner to revel a scroll patterned underside and an ivory triangle beneath. The rug has a three dimen...

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan room Size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 1".

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 8'9" x 11'6".

The ecru open field is anchored by a dark blue, scalloped and reticulated roundel of a dragon within roiling clouds, and is echoed in the similar dragon accented triangular floating corners...

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 4'10" x 5'6" - 147 x 168 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 8' 0'' x 9' 8''.

A vintage East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 12' 6".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Claret Background Color ( 9' x 9' 9'' - 275 x 297 cm )