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Item Ships From: Milan
Fine Antique Tibetan Khaden Monastic Rug with Longevity Motifs
Located in Milan, IT
Finely hand knotted employing the best quality Tibetan highland wool, this exceptional khaden was commissioned as a sitting rug for a high ranked Tibetan Lama for monastic use. The u...
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Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Silk Kashgar Throne Cover Rug Fragment
Located in Milan, IT
This very rare fragment belongs to a specific group of twelve silk Kashgar throne covers, all with a similar design and palette and distinguished by an ex...
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Early 18th Century East Turkestani Khotan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Silk
Elegant Art Deco Chinese Rug by Nichols & Co.
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
During the Art Deco period many designers commissioned their patterns to the city looms located in Tianjin through companies such as Nichols & Company. Some designs, such as this one...
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1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Nichols & Co. Black Art Deco Chinese Rug
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pieces are k...
Category
1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Deco Chinese Carpet by Nichols & Co.
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pi...
Category
1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Geometric Design Chinese Rug with Polychrome Diamonds
Located in Milan, IT
There is a group of later Chinese carpets which are characterized by geometric, often abstract patterns that seem inspired by Western sensibilities. What is puzzling however is that most of these weavings have been sourced in recent years in China itself, where they have been used in households ever since they were made. Whatever its origin, the resulting pattern of coloured lozenges has an outstanding three dimensional quality, and can be compared to the most important objects of twentieth century design.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Indigo Blue Geometric Ningxia Chinese Rug with Rosettes in Compartments
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Chinese rug decorated with an all-over pattern of eight-petalled rosettes, joined together to form a lattice in the negative of which is the longevity motif, that ...
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1880s Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mint Antique Imperial Chinese Ningxia Throne Back Cover with Lion Dogs
Located in Milan, IT
A rare example of Ningxia Chinese throne back cover of Imperial quality in pristine condition. A true gem distinguished by a plethora of shades of red, ...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Art Deco Chinese Rug by Nichols & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
A blue ground rug with an ascending pattern of stylised clouds woven by Nichols & Co, a leading American company based in Tianjin known for its very sturdy and hardwearing rugs, usua...
Category
1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Blue & White Mongolian Rug with Cloudbands and Longevity Symbols
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and beautiful antique northern Chinese rug, attributed to the Inner Mongolian region, distinguished by an ivory background decorated in two tones of indigo blue by a 'Shou' me...
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Mid-19th Century Mongolian Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Lacquer Red Tibetan Rug with Geometric Design
Located in Milan, IT
Here a series of golden yellow octagonal motifs, obtained from the stylisation of the dragon element, are arranged in an orderly manner against a rare lacquer red...
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Early 1900s Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Aubergine Purple Small Monastic Tibetan Sitting Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tibetan rugs woven with thick squarish knots in brilliant colours are considered among the earliest, and are often referred to in Tibet as Gyantse. Here we see a centralised light bl...
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Mid-19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Large Antique White Japanese Cotton Nabesima Dantsu Rug with Ningxia Design
Located in Milan, IT
Carpet weaving was introduced in Japan during the 17th century, when rugs began to be imported as luxury goods from China. Since Taisho period in the early 20th century, rugs were commonly referred to as 'Dantsu', deriving from the Chinese word...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
18th Century Imperial Ningxia Chinese Throne Back Cover with Lion Dog
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare Imperial Ningxia throne cover from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, distinguished by an exquisitely drawn lion dog, which is an auspic...
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1750s Chinese Qing Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare and Antique Geometric Ivory Mongolian Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Today Mongolian carpets are highly appreciated for the geometric character of their design and for their neutral palette, which is often centred on an ivory/dark colour combination. ...
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Mid-19th Century Mongolian Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Throne Back Cover with Lion Dogs
Located in Milan, IT
A rare example of Ningxia Chinese throne back cover of Imperial quality in pristine condition. A true gem distinguished by a plethora of shades of red, blue...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Silk Yarkand Throne Cover Rug with Opposing Dragons and Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine and rare antique throne back cover from Yarkand, in eastern Turkestan, hand knotted entirely in pure silk. A true gem of a weaving, with that perfect balance of colour an...
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Early 19th Century East Turkestani Khotan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Silk
Antique Nichols & Co. Dark Aubergine Art Deco Carpet
By Nichols
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pieces are k...
Category
1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Abstract Design Salsa Rug in Wool, Silk and Nettle by Zoë Luyendijk Studio
By Zoë Luyendijk
Located in Milan, IT
The new millenium enacted a huge wave of creativity in rug design, this made possible by the many technological advances which allowed a clearer communication to weavers of the most ...
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Early 2000s Nepalese Modern Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk, Hemp
Carpet, Missoni, 1980s
By Missoni
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cina, 1980’s
Handknotted, polychrome wool
168 x 240 cm
Category
1980s Chinese Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Blue Peking Imperial Dragon Carpet, Circa 1880
Located in Milan, IT
A central, five-clawed dragon (the symbol of both the forces of nature and the Chinese emperor), is surrounded by four other dragons, all floating on an indigo blue background. At bo...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Carpets such as this one were woven in China during the Art Deco period in order to satisfy the demand in the West for decorative rugs designed in the Art Deco taste. Here the Art De...
Category
1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Light Yellow Chinese Art Deco Square Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by an unusual all-over grid pattern on a soft lemon yellow background, this carpet is an example of the eclecticism of Chinese weavings in ...
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1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
17th Century Antique Chinese Ningxia Long Rug with Scrolling Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
Early Ningxia carpets are among the most elegant weavings from the East. The best and rarest examples were woven during Kangxi period, marking the beginning of the Qing dynasty, when...
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17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Deco Chinese Carpet by Helen Fette
By Helen Fette
Located in Milan, IT
A superb example of Art Deco weaving originating from China for the Western market. Finely knotted with silky wool with a floppy yet sturdy handle, a characteristic of the Fette-Li c...
Category
1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Square Chinese Art Nouveau Rug with Pastel Colours
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period characterised by an all-over pattern of tone on tone lotus flowers scrolling on a soft cream background within a circula...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Nouveau Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Room Size Open Field Antique Tibetan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A unique and elegant Tibetan carpet in a large format, most probably commissioned at the time for a special purpose. The neutral open field is framed by a series of borders, the larg...
Category
1880s Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Peking blue carpet, Hand-knotted
Located in Milano, IT
In the quiet hush of a dimly lit room, there lies a treasure from another time – an antique Chinese Peking carpet, a testament to craftsmanship and artistry that transcends the ages....
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Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Chippendale Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tibetan Door Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An especially rare example of door rug, known with this term because the design mimics the same exact motifs present on the silk and cotton brocades which som...
Category
1880s Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Imperial Chinese Red Silk Rug with Phoenixes
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare silk Ningxia carpet with an unusual lacquer red background decorated at the centre by a large phoenix and surrounded by four smaller phoenixes in the corners. The phoenix...
Category
19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Silk
Fine Antique Chinese Peking Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Chinese carpet of Peking quality, knotted with silky wool and distinguished by a very light palette. The open ivory background is uniquely decorated by a central ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Open Field Ivory Art Deco Chinese Rug, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
From the large output of Chinese carpets from Tianjin during the 1930s, only a very few are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these extremely ra...
Category
1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Sky Blue Tsuktruk Minimalist Tibetan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tsukdruk rugs are possibly the most representative examples of the Tibetan nomadic weaving tradition. Woven with lanolin-rich highland wool, these come in narrow strips constructed o...
Category
Early 20th Century Tibetan Tibetan Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tibetan Tsukdruk Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Rugs woven in this particular type of cut-loop technique follow a tradition which dates to the earliest forms of pile weaving. Each of the four panels is woven individually and are t...
Category
1930s Chinese Tibetan Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tibetan Meditation Rug with Three Mandalas
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a soft yellow background, the design of this unusual khaden consists of three Mandala elements, symbols of the universe, resulting from a stylisation of the Greek fr...
Category
Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early Chinese Carpet with Stylized Lotus Flowers and Leaf Stems
Located in Milan, IT
The extremely rare and monumental, ivory background large carpet shown here is decorated by an harmonious pattern of blue and light blue scrolling lotus flowers connected to each oth...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Antique Geometric Chinese Rug with Polychrome Lozenges
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Peking type carpet woven by an honeycomb arrangement of polychrome lozenges with an almost random color distribution.
Carpets of this type are representative of an early 20th...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Distressed 18th Century Antique Ningxia Chinese Narrow Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisitely elegant early Temple runner from the Ningxia region in northwest China, commissioned in the early 18th century for a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. The pattern is compos...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Rug with Abstract Design
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Large Oval Fine Antique Chinese Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven Chinese carpet of the type ascribed to the best workshops in Beijing distinguished by an oval format and characterized by a tone-on-tone leaf pattern in off beige-gold...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Di Bosco in Rosco Rug N.1
By Boralevi Firenze
Located in Milan, IT
Reminiscent of pop art designs infused with traditional Japanese print elements, this exquisite rug is characterized by bold colors that enhance the sinuous shapes dancing across the...
Category
2010s Italian Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Textile
Late Ming c.a Antique Carpet with emperor on clouds
Located in Milano, IT
Behold, a magnificent antique carpet from the late Ming Dynasty period, a true testament to the artistry and craftsmanship of ancient China. Crafted from the finest wool and meticulo...
Category
Early 1700s Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Art Nouveau Chinese Rug with Pastel Colors
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period distinguished by a tone-on-tone all over design of stylized lotus flowers connected to one another through a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Nouveau Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Garnet Tone on Tone Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A unique Art Deco carpet distinguished by a sparse and subtle floral tone-on-tone pattern in shades of garnet and amaranth. Rugs of this type were commissioned by Nichols & Co. in Ti...
Category
1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fragment of the Antique Tiffany Chinese Carpet with Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
The only huge carpet known to have left the Imperial Palace in Beijing's Forbidden City, formerly in the Perenchio collection, is the famous Tiffany carpet, 9.99 metres long and once 9.68 metres wide, but since reduced to 7.20 metres wide. The carpet was originally made in three parts to fit around the columns of an unknown hall, and was reportedly last used in China in the private temple of the Empress Dowager Cixi. It was purchased for Louis Comfort Tiffany of New York, who owned it for more than thirty years. The Tiffany carpet is currently attributed to the end of the Ming dynasty and is thought to have been made in the first part of the 17th century. The field pattern is composed of a repeating design of rows of lotus flowers on a soft beige ground, originally deep red, overlaid in the centre with a medallion formed by a blue line edged in ivory and pinched in the four corners. The field is enclosed by two borders on the same colour, which reappears beyond the borders to create a wide band around the outer edge. The inner border is composed of a lattice of stepped squares filled with a swastika, with a large rosette at each intersection. The outer border is a double version of the swastika fret. A section of the field is shown here, and a few other fragments survive.
The Tiffany carpet clearly forms a link between the carpets made during the late 16th century and those made in the late 17th century. Examples with an identical flower design or the same specific ‘heavy’ weave are now referred to as the ‘Tiffany’ type after this most important carpet. Other carpets of this type include one in the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Tiffany type...
Category
Early 17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tibetan Monastic Tiger Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tigers are not native animals of the Tibetan plateau; however their presence in neighbouring countries such as China and India partly explain its depiction, both in a realistic as well as in an abstract fashion, on a specific group of antique Tibetan weavings. The tiger pelt became a symbol of high rank in Tibet, employed almost exclusively on weavings which belonged to the religious as well as secular upper class. Following a series of important exhibitions and publications, rugs with this design have become exceedingly rare and sought-after.
On this rare monastic example, the tiger pelt rug...
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Late 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare and Unusual Antique Kashgar Rug with Mughal Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare small format, very finely knotted antique rug from the oasis of Kashgar, located in eastern Turkestan. Distinguished by a unique soft red background and by an all-over pattern consisting of a trellis containing a directional floral blossom motif characteristic of the Indian Mughal Dynasty...
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Early 19th Century East Turkestani Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
18th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug with Floral Medallion and Butterflies
Located in Milan, IT
Characterised by the delicate drawing which distinguishes the weavings of the short and noble Yongzheng period (1723-1735), it has a beautifully drawn...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare and Elegant 18th Century Antique Yarkand Samarkand Distressed Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and early Yarkand large format rug, distinguished by an infinite repeat pattern of the so-called 'five-flower herati' motif on a soft red back...
Category
1780s Turkestan Khotan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early Chinese Ningxia Rug with Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and beautiful early Chinese carpet characterized by an infinite repeat of parallel and offset rows of blue and ivory lotus blossoms, symbols of purity, on a two-tone yellow ba...
Category
Early 17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Art Deco Chinese Carpet by Nichols & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pi...
Category
1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Minimalist Art Deco Chinese Rug 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...
Category
1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Tibetan Nambu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Tibetan rug woven with the wool yarn obtained by unravelling the so-called 'Nambu' skirts, which are typically decorated by multicolored stripes. The unravelled ya...
Category
1920s Tibetan Tibetan Vintage Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Fine Indigo Blue Chinese Geometric Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Chinese rug in excellent condition, distinguished by a tone-on-tone Indigo blue palette and by a geometric pattern based on an infinite repeat, honeycom...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Camel Hair Chinese Primitive Pile Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare rug originating from the Taklamakan desert, located in northwest China, sparsely knotted with strands of unspun camel hair. Each row of knots is separated by a considerab...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Tribal Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique White Ground Tibetan Khaden Rug with Black Stepped Diamonds
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and elegant Tibetan rug in the khaden format distinguished by a snow white background decorated by an infinite repeat of parallel and offset rows of black stepped diamonds...
Category
1880s Tibetan Tibetan Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Lacquer Red Tibetan Khaden Rug with Lotus Flowers and Cloud Bands
Located in Milan, IT
A rare Tibetan meditation rug with a lacquer red background, embellished in black and showing two bracketed roundels each containing a stylisat...
Category
Early 20th Century Tibetan Tibetan Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mongolian Chinese Carpet with Longevity Motifs
Located in Milan, IT
The rare carpets of Mongolia have in recent years achieved a stature of their own. They differ from traditional 19th century Chinese carpets in that they typically employ stylized pa...
Category
1870s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Milan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
