New York - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

:: Roundel center medallion defined by densely ornamented scrolling vines atop a wide open field and corner spandrel overlays and main border reciprocating the design of the main med...

Gorgeous Antique Chinese Mongolian Design Rug, Country of origin: China, Circa date: 1920

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

Antique Chinese - Mongolian Rug 5' 9''x7' 10''

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 16'10'' x 17'10'' - 513 x 544 )

Antique Chinese silk rug measures: 3' 2'' x 5' 2''.

Antique Chinese Mongolian Rug, Size: 4'0"x6'0"

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 7" - 275 x 353 cm )

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

Antique Chinese - Mongolian rug, size: 17'0" x 17'2".

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 - 1970, this 5x8 vintage Müren Art Deco rug drawn on primitivist tribal and Scandinavian Rya styles in its big colorful l...

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 6' x 8'8" - 183 x 265 )

19th Century Pair of Chinese Silk Pictorial Kesi Textile ( 9" x 1' - 23 x 31 )

A vintage Persian Mashad carpet from the mid-20th century featuring a Chinese pictorial design of a dragon.

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 2'4" x 2'4" - 70 x 70 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 13' 1".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug, in an oblong oval shape, handmade during the mid-20th century with a floral pattern over a magenta-red field and goldenrod yellow border. Me...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 5'2" x 8' - 158 x 244 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 9" 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 ( 5' x 7'8" - 152 x 233 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 )

Handmade in wool, a delicious 8x10 needlepoint rug from Rug & Kilim’s coveted European style rug collection. This transitional rug enjoys an awe inspiring floral pattern in beige-bro...

Early 20th Century Central Asian Khotan Carpet ( 5'2" x 8'3" - 157 x 252 )

Hand knotted in wool originating circa 1910-1920, this 10 x 11 antique rug connotes a rare Mongolian rug pattern among the select additions to our collection, enjoying a Classic pall...

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 6'10" - 152 x 208 )

The fuschia-rose borderless field displays a roughly oval bottom to top medallion of flowers and tendrils, and zig-zagging broken basketwork. In tones of mauve, yellow, green and tea...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 15'6" - 305 x 473 )

1920s Chinese At Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'4" - 267 x 345 )

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

This is a Chinese art wool rug from China 1920. The size is 10'x13'8". The colors are red, green, blue, orange, tan, peach, yellow, purple, pink, and brown. There are patterns bordering the rug. The center of this border-less burgundy red interwar Tianjin carpet...

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 274 x 358 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 356 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'9" - 250 x 300 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan rug in gallery format from the early 20th century.

1920s Chinese Baotou Saddle Cover ( 2' x 4'2" - 61 x 127 )

1920s Pictorial Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' 6''x 9' 1'' - 137 x 276 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Foo Dog Rug 2'7" x 4'2" - 79 x 127

The two pictorial dark blue discs in diagonally opposite corners show respectively a butterfly and a flowering stem, with small porcelain vases, a teapot and teacup nearby. A fan and a scroll add to the exotic character of this generously open, champagne beige field, borderless interwar Art Deco Tianjin carpet.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 ) This Minimalist-leaning ruby red, border-less carpet shows just two floating floral forms, one a single flower and the other ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'8" - 280 x 355 )

An antique Chinese handmade rug from the early 20th century in shades of seafoam blue and seafoam green. Measures: 10' 1" x 15' 5"

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

Antique Art Deco Chinese, measures: 6'0" x 8'9".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Navy background with blue border. ( 10' x 14'6'' - 305 x 442 )

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Mat ( 2' x 2'2" - 60 x 65 )

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Gallery Carpet (5'8" x 16'6" - 173 x 473 cm)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 10' x 19'   

Pictorial Antique Chinese Foo Dog Area Rug, Country of Origin: China, Circa date: 1880. Size: 6 ft x 7 ft 4 in (1.82 m x 2.23 m)   

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

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

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

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

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

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