Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 11' 10" x 15'

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 6" x 11' 7"

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

An early 20th-century East Turkestan Khotan Pictographic rug Measures: 5'11'' x 9'7''.

Rare short and narrow antique soft blue Chinese runner.

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 3' x 3'2" - 92 x 97 )

An early 20th century antique Khotan rug 4'1'' x 6'10''

1940s Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 8' x 10' - 245 x 305 )

A rare dark blue chair seat with a fierce writhing central dragon and four surrounding similar creatures. Clouds are scattered about. A mountain, wave...

late 19th century east turkestan Khotan rug with cantaloupe colored ground. 4'1'' x 5'4''

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 15'3'' x 17'4'' - 465 x 528 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'x 9' 10" - 245 x 300 )

Ningxia in Northern China provided Tibetan monasteries with large numbers of pillar carpets with wraparound dragons soaring above mountains and waves, us...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Measures: 3'2" x5'10".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 3' - 60 x 90 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Floral green background. 9' x 11'10" - 275 x 360

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

A mid 20th century room size Chinese rug in blue and yellow. The wool and feel of the rug is very soft on the feet. It has a silky sheen to it a...

Rare and Beautiful Large Oversized Antique Khotan Carpet, Country of Origin: East Turkestan, Circa Date: 1910. Size: 14 ft x 20 ft (4.27 m x 6.1 m).

Beautiful early 20th century Chinese rug with a lovely floral pattern on a gray field Measures: 6'2'' x 8'8''.

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

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

An authentic full pile condition mid-20th century, Chinese Art Deco Mta rug with a large floral design on a green field Measures: 2' x 2'10''.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 8".

Very rare matching pair of antique khotans with one measuring 4'1'' x 5'11'' and the other measuring 4'4'' x 6'2''.

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 4' x 6'8'' - 122 x 203 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 3" x 11' 8"

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

A minimalist one-of-a-kind vintage Chinese rug in blues. Measures: 2'3'' x 2'5''.

An asymmetric array of 4 flowering sprays ornaments the open scarlet field of this 1920s Art Deco rug with a tonally matching border of four Shou (g...

The light green field has a serpentine plain center delimited by eight colorful peony and stem sprays passing from the paler border into the field. Flowers are contoured in blues, ru...

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

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

Long 1920s Chinese runner with a solid open field design with floral motifs in beige with a lovely floral border in navy and light blue. Excellent condition. Measures: 3' x 19'3".

A vintage Chinese pictorial accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century of horses prancing in a field over a dark midnight blue background. Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 6".

China, circa 1870 Handwoven Measures: 10'11" x 9'3" (333 x 282 cm)..

The border-less open royal blue field shows a large and a small floral bouquet diagonally opposed, but linked by a continuous sketchy light blue cloud meander, almost like smoke from a dying fire...

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

With a pile, but needle worked rather than knotted, this good condition piece on cotton shows a beige field, with a four-way symmetrical dispersed pattern of flower sprays, and roset...

An early 20th century rare original size Chinese square rug in predominant shades of pale beige and brown. The wool and feel of the rug is very soft on the feet. It has a silky sheen...

A Chinese pictographic rug in predominant shades blue. The wool is very soft and all the colors are natural. Soft on the feet.

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

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

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 7"

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Pillar Carpet (2' 9'' x 9'-85 x 275 cm)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'9" - 92 x 145 cm )

1920s Purple Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 14' x 15'4" - 426 x 467 cm )   

Vintage 1970s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 9'2" - 188 x 280 )

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2'6" x 11'4" - 76 x 345 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with purple color and 9'0" x 11'7" size.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'8'' - 270 x 355 )

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'7" - 275 x 353 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 7".

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Pillar Carpet ( 2'9" x 8' - 84 x 245 )