Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 7'2" x 13'2" - 218 x 402 )

Rare oval-shaped Green Chinese Art Deco rug. Measures: 3' x 4'11'' Chinese Art Deco rugs are known for their striking mix of asymmetrical ...

This antique Khaden smaller runner rug is remarkable for its fantastic orange field and expressive design. Two phoenix and two dragons balance one another out on either side. In Tibe...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet on Pink-Rose Background 9' x 11' 8" - 275 x 355 cm

This Tiger rug embodies a traditional and versatile pattern, both contemporary and timelessly classic. Shown in black and natural tan, colored with vegetable dyes. Joseph Carini was inspired by the patterns on the tiger pelt and traditional Tibetan animal prints on rugs...

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

9x12 Rare Antique Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug Chinese Rug 1920 Handmade Circa 1920 9' x 11'10" 275cm x 361cm "This is a magnificent unique antique Art Deco rug. It has an incredibl...

This vintage Khaden Tibetan rug features a tiger print. This handmade carpet is made of very soft handspun Himalayan wool and is in excellent condition given its age. Featuring a bea...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 9' 0" x 11' 9", features a refined and elegant floral design characteristic of the period’s aesthetic. The soft beige field is d...

Two Tigers is Joseph Carini's twist on a traditional Tibetan design. Two tigers face opposite directions surrounded by bamboo shoots and flowers reminiscent of east Asian motifs. The...

Chinese Nichols art deco mat-size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 2'1'' x 3'8"

The clear red field displays numerous Chinese vases and related objects with elaborate, colorful flowers, within a steel blue border of realistic lotuses. The pattern is asymmetric, ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3'1" x 5'10" - 94 x 178 )

Antique Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug 10x13 1920 9'9" x 12'8" 298cm x 386cm "This is a beautiful antique art deco rug with simple motifs. This piece has a great neutral colorwa...

1920s Chinese BaoTou Rug ( 2'2'' X 4'6'' - 66 x 137 cm )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 6'0" x 8'6".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

A 3rd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a dragon motif on a brown field Size: 3'1'' x 58''.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet Measuring 9'l x 11'5''

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 2'6" x 5'0".

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 8'6" x 11'6".

This vintage Khaden Tibetan rug features a tiger print. This handmade carpet is made of very soft handspun Himalayan wool and is in excellent condition given its age. Featuring a bea...

Vintage Chinese Peking Runner Art Deco 2'5" x 10'7" 74cm x 323cm "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco peking rug. It has beautiful rare colorway. This p...

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...

Rare Antique Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug Walter Nichols Bird 10' x 14'4" 305cm x 437cm Circa 1920 "This is a magnificent antique Art Deco rug with butterfly & bird design. With high ...

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 8" x 11' 8", beautifully showcases the refined aesthetic of traditional Khotan weaving. The design features an elegant compo...

Late 17th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: China Rugs, Circa Date: Late 17th Century – Size: 6 ft 2 in x 12 ft (1.88 m x 3.66 m) Unlike many traditional Chinese rugs...

Late 19th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet 16'2"x 18'6" - 493 x 564

The old gold field displays a low vase with spreading flowers at one end, grapes and grape leaves at the other, paeony groups at each side, all framed by a green border with more gra...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 4'' - 275 x 345 cm )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 3" x 6' 11".

Rare Vintage Silk Chinese Rug Temple of Heaven Tapestry 6'2" x 8'9" (6' x 9') 188cm X 267cm Circa 1965 "This is a magnificent vintage...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'4".

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 10'0" x 13'6".

19th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Dragon Embroidery 2'6" x 4'4" - 76 x 132

Full pile large Chinese Art Deco rug plum border, blue field Measures: 10' x 19'1".

Chinese - Art Deco Rug 7' 10" x 11' 6"

This medium-weave urban interwar carpet displays a royal blue field centered on a giant polychrome flower and stem motif, with fluttering birds and butterflies. Vase and pots in the ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'3" x 11'8" - 282 x 356 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan pictorial room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 4" x 11' 10"

Compelling Chinese rug with a motif full of happy foo dogs, circa 1940. The field is a peach tone, with navy and light blue accents Measures: 5'3" x 8'2".

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 8'10" X 11'8" )

Chinese Nichols art deco scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 2'7'' x 4'11''

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 3'2" x 5'0".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10" x 11'6" - 270 x 350 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Saddle Cover ( 2' x 4' - 62 x 122 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan throw rug. The salmon-pink field of this lively small scatter from the Xinjiang oasis city of Khotan displays two wiry, openwork octagons in dark bro...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8' x 9'6" - 244 x 290

An early 20th century Chinese pictorial throw-size rug Measures: 2'8' x 5'.

a worn 1930s Chinese Art Deco Small rug Details rug no. j4509 size 2' 6" x 4' 11" (76 x 150 cm

Finely Woven Antique Chinese Textile, Country of Origin: China, Circa Date: Late 19th Century

An antique Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 14' 10"

Main Hall Carpet Ningxia North Central China First Half of the 18th century Measures: 12'8" x 13'4" - 386 x 406 cm Structural Analysis Warp: cotton, white, natural, Z-4-S, hand-spun...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 8'9" x 11' 6" - 295 x 350

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 5' x 6'9" - 152 x 205 )

A full pile 3rd quarter of the 20th-century Chinese rug with a blue dragon on a yellow-beige field. Accents in blue. Measures: 2'3" x 4'5".  

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'6" - 264 x 348 cm )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 10".

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'10" x 12' - 270 x 365 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 7'9" x 9'6".