New York - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 8'10" x 11'8".

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 6" x 11' 7"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 2'6'' x 8'10'' - 76 x 269 )

Rare short and narrow antique soft blue Chinese runner.

A mid 20th century room size Chinese rug in blue and yellow. The wool and feel of the rug is very soft on the feet. It has a silky sheen to it a...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 297 cm )

A vintage Chinese pictorial Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 1"

Vintage Art Deco rug 9x12 Dragons Chinese rug Ivory Rug 6x9 Chinese Rug 1960 5'10" x 8'10" (6' x 9') 178cm x 122cm "This is a very beautiful vintage Art Deco dragon rug...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with European Design Influences. (13' 6" x 17' 8" - 412 x 536 cm)

An authentic full pile condition mid-20th century, Chinese Art Deco Mta rug with a large floral design on a green field Measures: 2' x 2'10''.

Vintage Samarkand (Khotan) Handmade Wool Carpet Size: 2'7" × 4'10" (78 × 147 cm) An early 20th century Samarkand (Khotan) rug, the beige field with a floral motifs and pair of vases ...

An early 20th century antique Khotan rug 4'1'' x 6'10''

Antique Chinese - Bao Tou rug, Size: 3'2" x5'0".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 8".

1920s Purple Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 14' x 15'4" - 426 x 467 cm )   

late 19th century east turkestan Khotan rug with cantaloupe colored ground. 4'1'' x 5'4''

This hand-loomed Tibetan wool blanket is a rare vintage piece. Especially charming for its green, blue and red end panel. Its thick pile would have been used for sleeping on or under...

Long 1920s Chinese runner with a solid open field design with floral motifs in beige with a lovely floral border in navy and light blue. Excellent condition. Measures: 3' x 19'3".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 12'2" x 14'6" - 371 x 442 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 6' x 8'9" - 183 x 267 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 11' 10" x 15'

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Measures: 3'2" x5'10".

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 3" x 12' 8"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 9' x 11' 6'' - 275 x 350

An early second quarter 20th century Samarkand carpet in the Khotan family.

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 3" x 11' 8"

A minimalist one-of-a-kind vintage Chinese rug in blues. Measures: 2'3'' x 2'5''.

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

Very rare matching pair of antique khotans with one measuring 4'1'' x 5'11'' and the other measuring 4'4'' x 6'2''.

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'10" x 92 x 147 cm )

1890 Antique Agra Rug Antique Agra Amritsar Handmade Agra Rug Geometric 9x12 Measures: 9'1" x11'9" 277cm x 358cm Circa 1890 "Magnificent antique Agra Amritsar Rug wi...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 2" x 3' 10" - 66 x 116 cm )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 11"

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with pink color background, size: 8'9" x 11'6".

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

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 7"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 2''x 14' 2'' - 340 x 432 cm )

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'9" - 183 x 267 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 7".

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 8'10" X 11'8" )

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Carpet 3' 2" x 5' 2"

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'10'' x 270 x 360 )

This contemporary 6x9 flatweave is inspired by 18th century Tudor rugs and tapestries—from the European Collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: Handwoven in wool, this construction marks the first adaptation of this transitional rug style to a high-low texture. Its all over pattern is a grand play of florals married to that texture, with a brilliant sense of depth and movement therein. The colorway favors teal and red tones over beige, with especially present cream and ochre notes among many accents. Keen eyes will further note the fine detail and remarkable adaptation of scale to an area rug. The whole look is a fabulous modern interpretation of a botanical English classic...

Contemporary Geometric Blue White Bamboo Silk Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Color: Blue, White Construction: Knotted Material: Bamboo Silk Showcasing a f...

Antique Chinese Bao Tou rug, size: 2'0" x 3'8".

Faded Distressed Khotan rug in a gallery format, circa late 19th century, measures: 6'3" x 12'6" Khotan rugs were produced in Eastern Turke...

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...

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...

Large decorative Khotan rug featuring a flower vase design on a soft pinky red background. 8'8'' x 16'2'' Producing rugs since the 17th century with peak production in the 1...

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

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

A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".

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...