New York City - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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".

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 5'2" x 10'2" - 157 x 309 )

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 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 Runner Carpet ( 2'6'' x 8'10'' - 76 x 269 )

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

Antique Chinese, Art Deco rug. Size: 8'3" x 9'9".

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Carpet ( 2'7" x 4'2"-78 x 127)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols ( 7' 10'' x 9' 2'' - 238 x 279 cm )

Made in hand knotted wool from the custom Classic Burano Collection by Rug & Kilim, this 2 × 3 this 2 × 3 rug is available as a gift-sized rug for both flooring and wall-hanging proj...

Custom colors and sizes available. Rug size is 5'0" x 8'0".

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

1920s Black Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 13' 6" - 304 x 412 cm )

Hand knotted in wool, an 8x10 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts a bold open field from this p...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6 'x 8'6" - 183 x 260 )

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

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 European needlepoint rug originating from China, features floral designs that speak to Bessarabian and Aubusson sensibilities along with other transiti...

Chinese - Ningxia, Size: 12' 9"x 13'0"

Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Atelier Dating From 1920s 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 cm

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 10'2" x 19'8" - 310 x 600 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' x 5'10'' - 122 x 178 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 298 )

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

Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 10'3" x 13'8".

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

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5'10" x 8'3" - 178 x 252 )

An antique Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 5".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'9" - 188 x 267 )

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

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

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

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Dragon Carpet ( 9'8" x 12' - 295 x 365 )

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 Carpet 8' x 9'6" - 244 x 290

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

Hand knotted in wool, an 11x16 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts an eccentric open field from...

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 1" x 5' 4".

An unveiling from the modern Kilim selections in the Kilim & flat-weave collection from Rug & Kilim-here celebrating a 6 x 9 Kilim from the contemporary wo...

Organic modern natural wool brown area rug by Joseph Carini. This carpet is a beautiful display of the natural variety of our hand spun Himalayan wool. The abrash effect in the carpe...

Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet with Dragons ( 9'x 12' - 275 x 365 )

This graphic and sophisticated Ming rug was realized in China, circa 1880. Presented against a black background, the circular rug presents sprigs of cherry blossoms resting in a vase...

Chinese - Peking Rug 8'0" x 9'8"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 11'4'' - 183 x 345 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 16' - 305 x 490 cm )

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

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

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 European rug in beige is the first iteration of this design to be in high-and-low texture. Featuring green and pink floral patterns with red and cream...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 8'0" x 9'8".

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 4'2"x6'10"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

This contemporary geometric rug from Rug & Kilim originates in Nepal, known historically as a hub of popular antique and contemporary workshops. ...

Made in hand knotted wool from the custom Classic Burano Collection by Rug & Kilim, this 2 × 3 this 2 × 3 rug is available as a gift-sized rug for both flooring and wall-hanging projects. Drawing inspiration from an 18th century Chinese rug...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8' 9" x 11' 4"

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

A modern Turkish tantric accent rug from the 21st century with a pictorial design of a flayed man over a black field. Original versions were employed by ...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 7".

Beneath the tasseled lambrequin, the scaly, five claw dragon rises trailing coiled clouds on the dark blue ground above a five-point “mountain” within frothing surf. Below is a rainb...