New York City - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Gold Antique Art Deco Rug Antique Chinese Rug Walter Nichols Black 4x7 122x203cm Circa 1920 "Beautiful antique Art Deco rug in a rare, gold and black colorway along with magnific...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4' 2" x 6' 10", features a rich and sophisticated design with a striking interplay of color and form. The deep blue field is ado...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7''- 269 x 353 cm ) With European Design Influences Reminiscence of Ivan de Silva Bruhns Works

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

Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century feauturing a bright orange field Measures: 3'2'' x 5'6''.

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: This rug recaptures the Chinese Art Deco rug styl...

Pillow made from an early 20th century Chinese blue Peking rug. Measures: 20'' x 20''.

Authentic Vintage Chinese Art Deco Wool Rug Size: 5'7" × 7'8" (170 × 233 cm) This striking wool area rug, crafted circa 1940s, is a superb example of Chinese Art Deco design, disting...

Antique Circa 1923 Burgundy Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 9' X 11'6. As the term implies, true Chinese Deco carpets were woven in a short...

Antique Dragon rug Chinese Peking Khotan SilkTapestry Brown 4'3" x 6'3" 130cmx191cm Circa 1880 "This incredible rare Antique piece is a fine ...

An early 20th century Chinese pictorial throw-size rug Measures: 2'8' x 5'.

Delicate flowers and Eastern motifs are scattered throughout Mountain Blossom's vibrant composition. This colorful Asian-inspired rug is cheerful and sophisticated for many interior ...

A three medallion arrangement with two blue roundels flanking a blue, nested ‘moon’ medallion. The straw field shows secondary rosettes and flowers around the major trio. ‘Yun-tsao Tou’ border of clouds and rain. From Eliko Rug Gallery...

This early 20th century Chinese Peking Art Deco rug, measuring 2' 11" x 5' 8", presents a captivating pastoral scene woven with charm and artistry. The central field depicts a tranqu...

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Throne Back Dragon Rug 2' 3" x 2' 3" - 68 x 68

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'8" - 91 x 142 )

Main Hall Carpet Ningxia North Central China First Half of the 18th century Measures: 12'8" x 13'4" - 386 x 406 cm Structural Analysis Warp: cotton, white, natural, Z-4-S, hand-spun...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 10' x 15'5"

This Tiger rug embodies a traditional and versatile pattern, both contemporary and timelessly classic. Shown in black and natural tan, colored with vegetable dyes. Joseph Carini was inspired by the patterns on the tiger pelt and traditional Tibetan animal prints on rugs...

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

Chinese Art Deco Mat scatter-size rug from the 1940s in neutral colors Measure: 2' x 4'.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 4'' - 275 x 345 cm )

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4'0" x 6'11", features a striking oval composition that captures the elegance and vibrancy characteristic of the era. The soft l...

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...

Early 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 10 8" x 12' - 325 x 365 )

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Carpet, Size: 9'x 11' 6"

Mid-20th century with Oval Medallion Chinese yellow, lilac and green decorative area rug Size: 13'10" × 20'2" (421 × 614 cm). This circa 1930 vintage Chinese deco rug features a str...

1980s Vintage Needlepoint Carpet ( 7'10'' x 9'6''- 240 x 290 )

In his creation of fine, luxury carpets, Joseph Carini is deeply influenced by Chinese and Asian art. Double Dragon is a modern twist on traditional symbology and composition of that...

Chinese Nichols art deco scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 3' x 5'

Full pile large Chinese Art Deco rug plum border, blue field Measures: 10' x 19'1".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Walter Nichols ( 11'2" x 15'4" - 340 x 467 )

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 9" x 12' 9", showcases a bold geometric composition inspired by traditional motifs. The central field features a striking in...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 12'0" x 14'6".

Pillow made from a 20th-century Chinese rug with zipper closure and poly-fill. Measures: 15'' x 15''.

Late 20th-century narrow Tibetan Runner Measures: 1'7'' x 8'4''

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Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 13'8" x 24' - 417 x 732 cm )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 10".

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design ...

A 3rd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a dragon motif on a beige field Size: 4'4'' x 6'10''.  

A room-size tradtional Chinese rug with a rare pumpkin color ground Measures: 9' x 11'6''.

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 ...

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6" - 245 x 290

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

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

A 2nd quarter of the 20th Century Tibetan Rug featuring an animal pictorial motif on an orange ground color Measures: 2'10" x 5'2''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 265 x 345 )

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

Antique Peking rug Chinese Art Deco rug pink purple handmade Chinese rug 2x3 2'4" x 3'4" 71cm x 102cm "This is a beautiful antique...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

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

An early 20th century Chinese Peking Dragon motif rug with a spacious open field design on an ivory ground Measures: 7'3'' x 9'7'' Chinese dragons are an important and powerful...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8'1" x 9'8"

Tiger by Joseph Carini with a gold yellow background and pink, black and white details. A tiger print forms from these multicolor lines that form a chevron pattern. Inspired by Tibet...