New York City - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

An early 20th-century Peking Chinese Pictorial Rug Details rug no. j4233 size 2' 3" x 4' 5" (69 x 135 cm)

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with multi-color and 9' 0” x 11' 8” size.

Hand-knotted wool circa 1925, a 9x12 antique Chinese art deco rug - latest to join Rug & Kilim’s antique collection. On the Design: This is a rare work from the Nichols style curat...

Originating from China, this contemporary runner is hand knotted with durable, high quality wool depicting a patchwork Ghana design, featuring an array of protective hand and medalli...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'6" - 280 x 350 )

The pale abrashed straw field shows three identical oblate circle medallions, supported by a loose scatter fill of guls, S’s and lesser devices. The borders show cloud heads and slan...

Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 8'2" x 9'6".

Vintage 1980s Chinese Dragon Carpet ( 5'7" x 8'7" - 170 x 262 )

This attractive Peking scatter features a cerulean blue field uniformly adorned with seven paeonies, with attendant leaves and stems. Eggshell border with vases on stands, bonsai pla...

Antique Chinese, Peking rug. Size: 11'4" x 17'2".

Pillow made from an old Chinese rug predominantly in green. zipper closure and polyfill provided Measures: 16'' x 23''.

This contemporary 10x14 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...

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

Handwoven 9 x 12 flat-weave joins the European Collection by Rug & Kilim—this design paying homage to Aubusson Kilim patterns of renown in the history of handmade European carpet tra...

Handwoven in wool, this 9x12 Aubusson flatweave rug in beige and brown features an array of motifs ranging from vases to griffins—a mythological creature of the handful seen in rare,...

The purple-mauve field is open at the center and is delimited on the border-less ground by a corner squared floral wreath strongly accented with colorful lotus leaves and flowers, sh...

A colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 3rd quarter of the 20th century with a dragon motif on red ground Measures: 3' x 5'7''.

Vintage Japanese Rug Size: 9'1" × 11'8" (276 × 355 cm) The Vintage Japanese Rug from Doris Leslie Blau is a captivating example of mid-20th-century Japanese textile artistry. This ha...

1920s Oval Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5'2" x 7'8" - 157 x 233 cm )

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...

An early 20th Century Chinese rug with an animal motif on a navy field Measures: 4'4'' x 6'10''.

Antique Tibetan Khaden rug featuring two beautiful dragons and a wild assortment of pastel colored clouds over a neutral tan background. This carpet features all vegetable dyes and i...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 12'10" x 15'9" - 390 x 480 )

mid 20th Century East Turkestan Asian Samarkand Rug rug no. j2469 size 4' 10" x 9' 7" (147 x 292 cm) Samarkand rugs from east turkestan are typically found in a long and relativel...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 10'2" - 245 x 310 )

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1920-1930, this 9x11 antique 9x11 Indochinese Art Deco rug is a rare and exciting curation from the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: This is an ex...

The semi-open burgundy field displays a large exuberantly flowering paeony plant at one end, with attendant vases and flowering stems. Matching floral bouquets ornament the other two...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 9'3" x 14'0"

Stunning Chinese Art Deco rug with jewel tone colors. Rug features full pile in excellent condition with no repairs. Measures: 9' x 11'7”.

An antique Chinese Peking deco carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 274 - 356 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet in Mandarin Quality ( 10' x 13'6" - 305 x 402 )

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 9'6" x 9'9" - 290 x 298 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Mat ( 1'7'' x 2' - 48 x 60 )

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 3'2" x 5'0".

Enchanting early 20th century highly decorative Chinese Peking rug with an abrashed light blue field The wool and feel of the rug is very soft on the feet. It has a silky sheen to it...

A border-less soft gold ground of this Tianjin 1930s carpet has a blue fretwork in the upper right corner and a facing four claw dragon in the lower left. This almost Minimalist comp...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 9" 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 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, this 7x8 antique khotan rug originating from 1910-1920 in East Turkestan is a particularly special find among Khotan rugs of this or any period. On the Desi...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 5' 10" x 8' 7", features a striking composition with a deep burgundy field that exudes warmth and elegance. The spacious central...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 ) We love rose/pink Art Deco Chinese carpets and they must have been popular in the interwar period also. A jade green border w...

An early 20th century fine quality Chinese animal pictorial rug featuring an anonymous blue elephant. 4'9'' x 7'8'' Decorative oriental, Chinese rugs and carpets...

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Carpet with Phoenix 5'6" x 9' - 168 x 274

A vintage Turkish Anatolian Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a goldenrod field and silver-grey border. The Cintamni pattern of 3 stones is in dark brown a...

a worn 1930s Chinese Art Deco Small rug Details rug no. j4509 size 2' 6" x 4' 11" (76 x 150 cm

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

A delicate, thin red line border develops fret work corners supporting two diagonally opposed paeony and bamboo corners on the otherwise undecorated rose-pink open ground. Pink, satu...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 1' 11" x 3' 9" - 2' 0" x 3' 9" , features a bold and artistic composition centered around a finely detailed vase motif. The rich...

A third quarter of the 20th century Chinese Emperor Empress Chinese pictorial conversation rug. Measures: 3' x 5'.

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Circular Carpet ( 12' 2" - 370 )

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''.

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Breathtaking and Highly Collectible Antique 16th Century Ming Dynasty Dragon Chinese Fragment, Country of Origin: China, Circa Date: 16th Century. Si...

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

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design. Measures: 9' 6" x 12' 1".

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

1920's Chinese Art Deco Carpet 9'x 11'6".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7'' - 270 x 353 cm )

Originating from China, circa 1920-1930, this 5x8 antique Chinese Art Deco Peking rug, hand-knotted in wool, features regal floral patterns and borders on a blue field. On the Desi...