Tri-State Area - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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

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

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

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...

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".

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'8'' - 279 x 356 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with red color Measures: 9'4" x 11'4".

Chinese - Peking Rug 8'0" x 9'8"

An asymmetric array of 4 flowering sprays ornaments the open scarlet field of this 1920s Art Deco rug with a tonally matching border of four Shou (g...

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...

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...

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

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...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a goldenrod field. This Chinese rug has a navy- blue and red frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditiona...

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...

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 8" 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...

Modern Art Deco Chinese Oval Rug Salmon color 5'2x8.

The border-less open royal blue field shows a large and a small floral bouquet diagonally opposed, but linked by a continuous sketchy light blue cloud meander, almost like smoke from a dying fire...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7' 10'' x 9' 7'' - 239 x 292 cm)

The light green field has a serpentine plain center delimited by eight colorful peony and stem sprays passing from the paler border into the field. Flowers are contoured in blues, ru...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'9" - 92 x 145 cm )

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 15'3'' x 17'4'' - 465 x 528 )

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

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This Chinese rug has a green frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese floral de...

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2'6" x 11'4" - 76 x 345 )

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

Antique Chinese - Art Deco Rug, Size: 9' 0'' x11' 8''

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Pillar Carpet (2' 9'' x 9'-85 x 275 cm)

This is a mid-20th century hand knotted Khotan rug with a tan color and medallion geometric design. The rug measures 3'8" x 8'3".

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

Vintage 1970s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 9'2" - 188 x 280 )

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

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

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco hand knotted wool rug with a red field. This Chinese rug has multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This ru...

An unveiling from the modern Kilim selections in the Kilim & flat-weave collection from Rug & Kilim-here celebrating a 6 x 9 Kilim from the contemporary wo...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'8'' - 270 x 355 )

Custom colors and sizes available. Rug size is 5'0" x 8'0".

Beautiful antique Chinese Peking rug, hand knotted wool with a blue field, and beige accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese art design. This rug measures: 7'8" x 9'5".

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with purple color and 9'0" x 11'7" size.

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 4'' x 15' 4'' - 345 x 467 cm )

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...

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

Early 20 Century Chinese Baotou Rug ( 2'6" x 4'8" - 76 x 142 )

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Pillar Carpet ( 2'9" x 8' - 84 x 245 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Dragon Carpet ( 6'3" x 9'3" - 191 x 282 )

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a brown color field. This Khotan rug has pink, orange, and dark brown accents in a gorgeous geometric multi-medallion pattern. T...

Beneath the tasseled lambrequin, the scaly, five claw dragon rises trailing coiled clouds on the dark blue ground above a five-point “mountain” within frothing surf. Below is a rainb...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'7" - 269 x 353 )

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'8' - 280 x 355 )

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco runner, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, tan frame in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 2'6" x 4'10". ...

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a beige color field. This Khotan rug has brown, yellow, and peach accents in a geometric multi-medallion design. This rug measur...

This stunning antique Chinese Art Deco rug is expertly hand-knotted from premium wool. It features a rich burgundy background adorned with a vibrant, multicolored floral design, eleg...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a goldenrod field, navy- blue, red frame, and multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. ...

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet 8'6" x 9'6"

This 20th century Khotan rug is an antique piece featuring a red field and center medallion adorned with multicolor accents. This rug measures 2'11" x 6'1".