New York - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 3'0" x 5'4".

With a minimalist floral pattern inspired by a rare botanical design with bamboo trees in green and blue, on a beige field and gold border, this 12x15 Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-kn...

Chinese Deco Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 12'0" × 13'5" (365 × 408 cm) Circa: 1940 Age: Vintage Origin: China Style: Art Deco This exquisite rug is part of the diversified Doris Lesli...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'10".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Debackground measuring 9' x 11'9" Green background with yellow border.

1930s Square Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 12' - 355 x 365 cm )

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

Mid-18th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 13'10" - 411 x 422 )

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

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

1920s Round Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 3' - 92 x 92 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 cm ) with a fuchsia color background

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Kansu Carpet ( 11'6" x 12' - 350 x 365 )

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...

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 9'0" x 11'6".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Oval Carpet ( 4' x 6'10" - 122 x 208 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 4' x 6'8'' - 122 x 203 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x9 rare antique Chinese Peking rug, circa 1850-1860, is one of the provenance’s most special pictorial rugs in the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design...

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 3' x 11' - 90 x 335 )

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

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

Handwoven in wool, this 7x9 flatweave rug “Acanthus” from China features floral patterns that are often seen in botanical illustrations throughout Aubusson, Tudor, Bessarabian and ot...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 279 x 358 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'3" x 17'2" - 343 x 523 )

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 3' x 3'2" - 92 x 97 )

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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'1'' x 9'5'' - 246 x 287 )

Hand knotted on a luscious 9 x 12 scale from China circa 1950-1960, this vintage Art Deco rug hails from Rug & Kilim’s coveted Antique & Vintage Collection. R...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 3' x 4'8'' - 92 x 142 )

Antique Chinese Peking School Blue & White Oriental Wool Carpet C1930 Measures - 147.5"L x 103.5"W x 1"D

a 3rd quarter of the 20th century Tibetan rug with a dragon on a solid black color borderless field Details rug no. j3661 size 5' x 5' 10" (152 x 178 cm

Frank Lloyd Wright for F. Schumacher & Co. Taliesin Collection medium-pile Wool Rug. Papyrus (abstracted as lines and triangles, pale green, lavender, c...

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".

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

An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4" 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...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' 6" x 11' 8" - 320 x 355 cm )

Antique Chinese - Silk rug, size: 8'10" x 12'0".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco rug handmade during the mid-20th century predominantly in red, green, and antique white, and with accent colors in silver, beige, pink, blue, and orange , ...

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan room Size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 11" x 12' 0".

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 8'7" x 9'4" - 262 x 284 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'3".

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...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 7'10" x 9'8".

Chinese Art Deco Botanic Rug Circa: 1940 Size: 7'6" × 10'0" (228 × 304 cm) Age: Vintage Color: Beige, Green, Pink, Purple, Yellow Origin: China This exquisite rug is part of the div...

19th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Meditation Carpet (4' x 7' – 122 x 213 cm) Silk pile of Asymmetric Knots with Gold Metal Thread Brocading...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' - 275 x 335 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 3'10" - 60 x 118 )

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Carpets (4'4'' x 6'1'' - 132 x 185 )

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

Rare and Beautiful Large Oversized Antique Khotan Carpet, Country of Origin: East Turkestan, Circa Date: 1910. Size: 14 ft x 20 ft (4.27 m x 6.1 m).

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'6"- 270 x 350 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...