New York City - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Two pine trees surge in parallel up the cerise field, with details in sky blue and salmon, and are finialed at both ends by spreading, straight nearly bare branches forming Vees, Sh...

The straw beige field displays a characteristic three moon medallion pattern, with two moons enclosing octogramme motives. Supporting scatter with butterflies, leaves and flower arr...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet on Yellow-Gold Background ( 4' x 6'10" x - 122 x 208 cm )

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 8' 4" x 7'

Early 20th Century Oval Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'10" - 250 x 300 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 8".

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 12'6'' x 18' -380 x 550 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Carpet ( 4 4" x 6'10" - 132 x 208 )

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 12' x 23'3" - 366 x 710 )

1920s Black Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 7'10" x 9'6" - 240 x 290

Definitely a soft pink tone-on-tone carpet with a complex and dense border of leaves and flowers. Very much a boudoir carpet. Elaborate contour carving intact. Good condition. From P...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4' x 6' 8'' -122 x 203 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 17'5" - 305 x 530 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3' x 5' 10'' - 92 x 178 cm )

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 2" x 17' 10".

This contemporary 14x17 flat weave is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s European collection. Inspired by 18th century Aubusson flat weaves, which is a favorite style and period of R...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

This vintage 6×8 Art Deco needlepoint is one of a limited collection that recaptures the works of artist Tim Van Campen. Handmade in all wool circa 1980-1990, it hails from the works...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'9" - 269 x 358 cm )

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan room Size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 1".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'10" x 17' - 300 x 520 ) A generally diagonally symmetric layout of half vases on stands with flowering bonsai bushes, is laid on the tan field with ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 17'2" - 305 x 523 )

The wine-brown field is diagonally wide open and guided by asymmetric rose, peony and lotus corners bin bright polychromy. The dark pink border has a lace-like character with barbed ...

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Baotou Carpet

Early 19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery ( 1'9"x 1'10" - 53 x 56 )

A vintage Chinese Peking room size carpet handmade during the late 20th century in blue, mauve, and cream. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9".

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...

Hand knotted in wool, a 9x12 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts an all over floral pattern in ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 4'8" x 5'10" - 142 x 178 )

Handwoven in wool, this 9x12 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoy...

Handwoven in wool, this 9x13 Aubusson flatweave rug draws on a particularly rare design for this aesthetic known for its teeming designs—an open field design in particular, with a mi...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Pillar Carpet ( 4' x 7' - 122 x 213 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 3' x 5'8" - 91 x 173 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 12'8" - 2780 x 355 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Fuschia color 8' 9'' x 11' 2''

Mid 18th Century W. Ningxia Carpet 5'6" x 7'2

Early 20th Century Oval Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' x 6'8" - 122 x 203 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' 2" x11' 8"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11'9" x 17' - 358 x 518 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'9'' x 13'6'' - 298 x 412 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 6'2" x 9'9" - 188 x 297 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century in blue. Measures: 2' 11" x 4' 10".

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 8'4" x 9'8".

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet 12'4" x 18'2" - 376 x 554

Chinese - Peking rug. Measures: 2'4" x 9'10" Navy background.

This deep rose 1920’s rug from Tientsin(Tianjin)in NE China has an open field with birds perched in a leafy vine scroll border with occasional large tree peonies. There is no inner bounding line and one almost expects the winery to spill into the center of this brightly colored rug...

This vintage 7×9 Art Deco needlepoint is one of a limited collection that recaptures the works of artist Tim Van Campen. Handmade in all wool circa 1980-1990, it hails from the works...

A tall, attenuated vase holding flowering stems decorates one corner and lesser antiques are spread out at the plum field and green border transition. The basically open field of thi...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 4x6 European rug in black is the first iteration of this design to be in high-and-low texture. Featuring beige/brown, green and pink floral patterns among ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 8' X 12'6" - 244 x 381

A Mid-Century Chinese Deco carpet.

Antique Cloud Band Dragon Design Chinese Pillar Rug, Country of Origin: China, Circa date: 1900. Size: 4 ft 4 in x 6 ft 10 in (1.32 m x 2.08 m)

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 13'10'' x 17'4'' - 422 x 528 )

Handwoven in wool, this 9x10 European flatweave rug has been inspired by 18th century English Tudor rugs and tapestries. The design features floral p...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x11 European rug has been inspired by English Tudor rugs and tapestries but a particular style among them once called armorial carpets. The design feature...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'6" 270 x 350 cm )

Originating circa 1980, this vintage hand knotted wool Tabriz rug represents a graceful addition to the Modern Classics collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by our team’s experience i...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 12' x 17' 6" - 366 x 533 cm )