Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Chinese - Baotou 5' x 8' 10"

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 3'10" x 6'10" - 116 x 208 cm )

2nd quarter of the 20th century Tibetan rug with 2 flamingos on a light blue ground 3' x 5'1''

Black ground with four matching right angle corners, each composed of a mini-landscape with a pagoda and pine trees in beige tones. Totally open centre with no borders. A very unusua...

An early 20th Century Chinese rug with an animal motif on a navy field Measures: 4'4'' x 6'10''.

An antique Chinese Peking deco carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century.

Antique Chinese - Mongolian rug, size: 17'0" x 17'2".

Full plush pile Chinese Batou Animal Pictorial design rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century Measure: 4'4'' x 6'9''.

This solid silk carpet is shown in a mysterious and dynamic green with hints of blue and grey. The striation and natural variety in its color is achieved with all natural vegetable d...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 14'2" x 19'9" - 432 x 602 )

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

Antique rug deco with pink color and 9' 0'' x 11' 3'' size.

Antique Chinese, Peking rug. Size: 11'4" x 17'2".

This rather distressed piece shows a slate field with the characteristic Khotanese design of converging pomegranate trees emerging from small vases. The quadripartite Turkmen-style ...

These mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco pair rug, measuring 2' 5" x 4' 7" - 2' 5" x 4' 7", features a refined and elegant bamboo motif set against a soft beige field. Delicately ren...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco Rug, Size: 6'0" x 8'8"

A Chinese silk pictorial rug. On a border-less burgundy red ground, 11 Immortals stand on clouds .Each immortal has its own unique colorful outfit o...

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 16'10'' x 17'10'' - 513 x 544 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'8'' - 279 x 356 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with multi-color and 9' 0” x 11' 8” size.

Antique Circa 1923 Taupy-Gray Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 8'10 X 11'2. As the term implies, true Chinese Deco carpets were woven in a s...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12'- 275 x 365 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with a purple color background ( 8'10" x 11'4" - 270 x 345 )

Stunning Chinese Art Deco rug with jewel tone colors. Rug features full pile in excellent condition with no repairs. Measures: 9' x 11'7”.

An early 20th-century Chinese Pictorial rug with an animal motif in light blue, navy and ivory Measures: 2'3' x 4'5''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 4' x 6' 9"

Pillow made from an old Chinese rug predominantly in green. zipper closure and polyfill provided Measures: 16'' x 23''.

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century Chinese Peking rug with a pictorial design in brown Size: 3'3'' x 5'2''.

Rare Antique Peking Ninghshia Art Deco Rug Chinese Tapestry Beige 9'4' x 10' 10' x 10' 285cm x 305cm Circa 1860 "This is a rare Antique Chinese Peking Ningxia Ningshia rug...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, Size ( 10' x 15' 6'' - 305 x 472 cm )

An early 20th-century Chinese run in the palest blue color Measures: 2'11'' x 5'.

Hand picked by buyers at Ann-Morris Inc.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 10".

Rare antique Art Deco rug antique Chinese rug Art Nouveau rare handmade 10 x 13'1" 305cm x 399cm 1920 "This is a magnificent unique antique Art Dec...

Ningxia North Central China 17'10" x 17'10" Circa 1850 Warp: cotton, off white, handspun, Z-4-S Weft: cotton, off white, handspun, 2 shoots alternating Pile: wool, 3 strand, handspun Knot: asymmetric, open left, 48 knots per square inch Sides: one cord, offwhite cotton wrapped End: no original finish This is a particularly large example of a Mandarin official’s carpet with a central medallion displaying nine lion dogs collectively symbolic of success on the national Chin Shih examination which provided guaranteed entry into the national administrative bureaucracy and the wealth devolving therefrom. The nine lion dogs are a rebus for success in the national bureaucracy. The apricot ground features 11 full or partial rows of tree paeonies, flower and stem. This carpet is particularly large and clearly was made for a highly placed official or the wealthy family of a recent graduate of whom great things were expected. The principal was probably Buddhist as indicated by the embroidered ball and precious objects in the medallion. The clouds surrounding the lion dogs form a broken, polychrome circle rather than the usual continuous cloud wreath. This is one of the several features indicating a bespoke order rather than a piece made for the market. Another indicator is the exceptional size, as the standard square Ningxia Mandarin carpet is about 12 to 14 feet square. The main border continues the colour combination, with a now apricot ground and paeonies among floral arabesques. The blue inner stripe is unusual with butterflies alternating with paired peaches...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

1920's Chinese Art Deco Carpet 9'x 11'6".

Mid-18th W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet Main Hall Carpet 11’9” x 12’ Mid 18th Century Structural Analysis: Warp:cotton,off-white,natural,Z-4-S,somewhat irregular; Weft:cotton,off-white,Z-4-S,winder plied, quite irregular;2 shots alternating; wefts thick and soft; Pile:wool,Z-4; Knot: PL/0 degrees warp depression/horiz. 6 x vertical 5 = 30 knots per square inch; knots somewhat irregular, some quite thin; [check for T knots along edges] Sides: two cords each of two body warps, inner directly weft-attached; figure eight sparsely weft yarn wrapped; Weft/knot ratio: 60/40 wefts predominant. Remarks: This is another variant on the popular Mandarin nine lion dog carpet...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug 8' 4" x 9' 10"

The royal blue field is framed by the navy border from which grow into the field writhing stems and grape bunches, along with vases and a medium blue disc with another vase. Off cen...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'6"- 267 x 351 )

An early 20th century fine quality Chinese animal pictorial rug featuring an anonymous blue elephant. 4'9'' x 7'8'' Decorative oriental, Chinese rugs and carpets...

The purple-mauve field is open at the center and is delimited on the border-less ground by a corner squared floral wreath strongly accented with colorful lotus leaves and flowers, sh...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 4'' x 15' 4'' - 345 x 467 cm )

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a pheonix dragon motif on a brown field Size: 3' x 5'8''.

Stunning circa 1930's Chinese pictorial rug with a large deer and bird on a deep blue ground Measures: 2'5" x 4'6".

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

A colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 3rd quarter of the 20th century with a dragon motif on red ground Measures: 3' x 5'7''.

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 8" 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...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 9'0" x 11'6".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 12' x 17' 6"

This solid area rug is anything but boring. The rich indigo blue background has so much depth and variation that can only be achieved through natural vegetable dye. The ends are trim...

An Antique Tibetan intermediate Pictorial rug from the early 20th century 5'11'' x 9'3''   

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 9' 5" x 12' 10", is a stunning example of the region’s refined weaving tradition, skillfully merging historical symbolism with ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 9' x 12'

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with pink color background, size: 8'9" x 11'6".

A Carini Classic, this White Tiger luxurious area rug is exudes power and fashion. Designed by Joseph Carini, this has been a mainstay in his collection for over 20 years. Shown here...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 1' 11" x 3' 9" - 2' 0" x 3' 9" , features a bold and artistic composition centered around a finely detailed vase motif. The rich...

mid 20th Century East Turkestan Asian Samarkand Rug rug no. j2469 size 4' 10" x 9' 7" (147 x 292 cm) Samarkand rugs from east turkestan are typically found in a long and relativel...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'6" - 267 x 350 cm )