Tri-State Area - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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...

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

Early 20th Century Oval Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'10" - 250 x 300 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x11 European rug has been inspired by English Tudor rugs and tapestries but a particular style among them once called armorial carpets. The design feature...

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

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

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

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

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 10".

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

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 10'2" x 19'8" - 310 x 600 )

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

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

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

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

Late 19th Century Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 11'6" x 21'3" - 350 x 650 )

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

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 1" x 5' 4".

:: Roundel medallion in simplistic bold relief atop a covered field of trees, vines, bouquets, and butterflies in each corner inwardly directed to the main features. Inner minor bord...

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

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8' 9" x 11' 4"

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5' x 7'8" - 152 x 233 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 298 )

An antique Chinese Mongolian carpet from the early 20th century. Four columns of ivory stars of two distinct sizes decorate the grey-beige field which is framed by a cerulean blue bo...

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

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 8' 9" x11' 6"

Hand-knotted in wool, an antique 9x12 Chinese Art Deco rug joining Rug & Kilim’s repertoire of coveted 1920s masterpieces. This interpretation of the classic style enjoys a brilliant...

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

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

Made with fine quality hand spun wool yarns, this handmade cut and loop pile rug has natural variations in colors and texture similar to antique rugs. Ha...

Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet with Dragons ( 9'x 12' - 275 x 365 )

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...

:: Open field with covered floral sprays wrapped by an interconnecting vine and blossom field overlay. Hard to find size and proportions. Colors and shades include: Beige, silver, co...

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

This contemporary 9x11 rug is a new addition to the Rug & Kilim’s European collection. Inspired by 18th-century Aubusson rugs, this rug has a more subdued take on this regal transiti...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 11'4'' - 183 x 345 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'10" x 9'8" - 239 x 295 )

Hand-knotted wool and hailing from 1920s China, this 9x11 antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a one-of-a-kind new curation from Rug & Kilim. On the Design: An off-white field and bord...

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...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, Size: 8' 8'' x 11' 4''.

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

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...

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...

An antique Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 0" x 13' 7"

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.

Early 20th Century Chinese Gansu Flat Weave ( 4'6" x 78'3" - 137 x 221 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 5' x 6'9" - 152 x 205 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 9"

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

Pair of Chinese Peking Carpets from 1920s ( 2' / 60 cm )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'8" - 188 x 264 )

Mid-20th Century Chinese Deco Handmade Wool Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 10'0" × 13'10" (304 × 421 cm) This vintage Chinese Art Deco rug, circa 1945, exemplifies the bold aesthetic of...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 2" x 8' 9"