Tri-State Area - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 cm ) The lemony gold field, with a dark blue border, shows a characteristic group of Chinese motives, three different hanging o...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Dragon Carpet ( 6' x 8'6" - 183 x 259 )

This contemporary geometric rug from Rug & Kilim originates in Nepal, known historically as a hub of popular antique and contemporary workshops. The all-over field design employs row...

An enticing 8x10 ode to celebrated Persian Sultanabad rug styles, from Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection. Hand knotted in wool from Josh’s favorite workshop of its tief, the p...

The warm ecru field presents a widely dispersed, symmetric layout of butterflies and small floral sprays, with deep, triangular vine arabesque corners anchored by petal peonies. Ecr...

Belonging to Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics collection, an intricate Sultanabad style rug taking after neoclassical Persian sensibilities. The subtle floral medallion pattern plays beautifully with uniquely soft tones of beige & brown cocooned in light blue borders seldom seen in the Sultanabad lineage. Hand-knotted in all wool, a lavish 10x14 carpet...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'9" x 9' - 267 x 275 )

This contemporary 14x17 flat weave is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s European collection. Inspired by 18th century Aubusson flat weaves, which is a favorite style and period of R...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 5' x 8'4" - 152 x 254 )

Vintage Khotan Gallery size rug, 6'5 x 13'1. An Antique Khotan with a natural abrash on the borders. An abrash is a natural change in color that occurs when different dyes are used and gives uniqueness an extra beauty to the rug. The rug has been given a wash to soften the colors. Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan, was a gathering point for rugs woven in western China, among them those from the Silk Road city of Khotan. Kashgar and Yarkand were other prominent rug weaving centres in Xinjiang province. The pomegranate tree stemming from a vase, an ancient oriental fertility symbol, is a common design on Khotan carpets. Many Khotans...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11' x 14'4" - 335 x 437 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 European rug in beige is the first iteration of this design to be in high-and-low texture. Featuring green and pink floral patterns with red and cream ...

Based on an original Asmara painting inspired by a Tuscan Hillside covered with olive groves, cypresses, wildflowers and goldenrod bushes. This handmade cut and loop pile rug...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, Size: 2'6" x 8'10".

Antique Chinese Silk rug, size: 5'6" x 7'9".

Antique Chinese, Kansu rug, size: 5'6" x 8'6".

An antique East Turkestan pictorial vase Khotan rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 7".

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

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 7'9" x 9'4".

Early 19th Century W. Chinese Saddle Cover 2'2" x 4'3".

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x11 European flatweave rug in brown features rich brown underscores and green, blue and beige floral patterns, with a terracotta accent befitting such an ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4'2" x 7' - 127 x 213 ) A salmon field is centered by a bold Shou (good luck) medallion within a wreath of bats and ensuite bat corners. A narrow pla...

Contemporary Abstract Blue Purple Flat Weave Rug Size: 5'7" × 7'1" (170 × 215 cm) A contemporary flat-weave wool rug with an abstract design in blue and purple hues. Exclusively ava...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11'9" x 17' - 358 x 518 )

Antique Chinese Horse Cover, Size:2'2"x4'9"

Contemporary terra blue hand knotted in natural wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 4'2" × 6'0" (127 × 182 cm). Hand knotted un-dyed wool Tibetan rug with all-over geometric design. ...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 358 )

19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 10' x 11'4" - 305 x 345 )

This is a lovely and pristine pair of antique blue gold black Art Deco Chinese runner rugs c. 1920-1930, each measuring 2.6 x 14.8 ft.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug ( 3' x 5' - 91 x 152 )

Originating circa 1980, this vintage hand knotted wool Tabriz rug represents a graceful addition to the Modern Classics collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by our team’s experience i...

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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 11'x 22' 2" -

:: Open field with diagonally opposing sprawling ornate foliage and long stemmed vines reciprocating each other. Super soft and blanket-like feel with plush pile. Colors and shades include: Pale dusty rose, ivory, beige, mint green, pistachio green, sand, sky blue, coffee brown, pale gold, and more. Condition notes: Like-new, original full pile height even across. Original side cord selvages intact. Fully secured sides and ends. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Japanese Art...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 4' 0'' x 6' 9''.

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 8'9" x 11'4".

Early 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Pillar Carpet ( 3'4" x 8'8" - 102 x 264 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 297 )

Beautifully decorative antique Khotan rug, Country Of Origin: East Turkestan, Circa date: Early 20th century. Size: 8 ft x 16 ft (2.44 m x 4.88 m)

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet

Chinese Runner (Size Adjusted) Size: 2'7" × 11'7" (78 × 353 cm) This exquisite antique Chinese runner, size-adjusted for versatility, embodies the timeless elegance of traditional Ch...

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Baotou Scholars Carpet 4' x 6'9'' - 122 x 206

Modern Tibetan European-Inspired Wool & Silk Rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 5.0" × 7.8" (152 × 233 cm). A captivating fusion of classic European aesthetics and contemporary Tibetan ...

Modern Geometric design handmade cotton rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 10'0" × 10'4" (304 × 314 cm) Thanks to bold rugs you can find new ways of making interiors brighter and more in...

Contemporary beige and white flat-weave wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 4'0" x 6'7" (121 x 200 cm) Such an enchanting composition as this modern flat-weave rug will not leave any...

Contemporary green handmade silk rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 15'6" × 17'5" (472 × 530 cm) This contemporary silk rug was hand knotted of high-quality silk by a skilled artisan. S...

Modern Tibetan "Rhombus" Rug in Silk and Wool by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 12'2" × 18'4" (370 × 558 cm). A stunning fusion of geometric sophistication and artisanal finesse, this cont...

A vintage Chinese Peking room size carpet handmade during the late 20th century in blue, mauve, and cream. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9".

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 12'6" x 13'4".

A Mid-Century Chinese Deco carpet.

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

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 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...

1930s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 14' x 17'6" - 427 x 533 )

Vintage Chinese Silk Rug ( 4' x 6' 3" - 122 x 190 cm )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 8".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug in Soft Pastels with Floral Trellis Design (size adjusted) Size: 13'8" × 14'5" (416 × 439 cm). This captivating 1920s Chinese Art Deco rug exemplifies the ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 6' x 11' 8" - 183 x 355 )

A majestic 6x9 needlepoint piece joining Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection. The rug features pictorial representations of animal symbols in the centre surrounded by a dense fl...

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 2" x 17' 10".