Continental US - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug ( 3'2" x 6' - 97 x 183 )

A brilliant Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful cranberry field surrounded by a wide grey border. Multicolored potted peonies, chrysanthemum, and prunus flowers are asymmetrically ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10' x 11'6'' - 305 x 350 )

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 16' - 305 x 490 cm )

Fine handwoven Savonnerie rug.  

Chinese - Art Deco. Measures: 12'0" x 16'10".

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

Modern Tibetan Silk Rug – “Cinnamon Lattice” Design by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 8'0" × 10'0" (243 × 304 cm) Artfully crafted in Tibet, this luxurious modern silk rug features an intri...

77376, vintage Persian Tabriz Chinese silk rug with Art Nouveau Rococo style. With ornate details and well-balanced symmetry combined with a dreamy color palette, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian Tabriz Chinese silk rug beautifully embodies both Art Nouveau and Rococo style. A cusped oval medallion anchored with palmette pendants flank either side surrounded by an all-over floral pattern composed of blooming palmettes, curled sickle leaves, leafy tendrils arabesque vines with peony, carnation, and lotus flowers. Enclosing the floral medallion are dramatic, deep and elaborate corner spandrels boasting Baroque elements as it sets the stage for a bounty of flower garlands and organic leafy mounds. It is framed with a variation of a millefleur palmette border flanked with a series of floral Meander guard bands. Decadent beauty in a dreamy color palette this vintage floral area rug...

Deep red field Chinese Deco Nichols rug. Bright colored floral design in two corners. One or two small discolorations (shown) but truly nice overall condit...

Chinese - Ningxia, Size: 12' 9"x 13'0"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10' x 12' 6" - 305 x 382 )

1920s Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" X 11'6" - 266 x 350 ) Floral pattern with Navy background.

78285 Vintage Wool & Silk Chinese Tabriz rug with European Cottage Style 9'08 x 13'05. Ornate details and effortless beauty with romantic connotations, this hand knotted wool and sil...

Two flower bouquets or bushesfloat in the burnt orange field and two larger aggregations from opposite corners. The yellow and goldenrod flowers are shaded in rust red and there are ...

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...

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

Oversized contemporary geometric Tibetan black rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 14.0" × 24.0" (426 × 731 cm) No matter if you are a fun of Pink Floyd or an aficionado of modern design...

77854 vintage Garden Rabbit Hooked rug with French Country Cottage style 02'05 x 04'00. Warm and welcoming, this vintage garden rabbit hooked rug sho...

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 12' x 15'6" - 365 x 472 )

Two cranes and two spotted deer, both symbols of longevity, shelter under leafy trees against the near black ground. The cranes stand on a rock with other banded formations nearby. ...

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 7'10" x 10'5" - 238 x 317 )

From Rug & Kilim’s European collection, an 8x10 Tudor style flatweave with medallions & pictorial patterns in regal black, gold & off white. Handwoven in wool, a fine weave with coar...

Chinese - Art Deco Rug 9' x 11' Chinese - Art Deco As the name implies, pieces woven between the wars for the Western market by mostly American owned firms especially Nichols and Fet...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7''- 269 x 353 cm ) With European Design Influences Reminiscence of Ivan de Silva Bruhns Works

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols ( 7' 10'' x 9' 2'' - 238 x 279 cm )

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 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...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with fuchsia color and 9'0" x 11'6" size.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 3'10" - 61 x 117 )

77585 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 02'04 x 04'07. This exceptional hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug captures the essence of classical Chinese symbolism and a...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with ivory color Measures: 9'2" x 11'10".

51403 Blue and beige vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Chinoiserie style. Embodying European sensibility with an artful balance between warm and inviting, this hand-knotted vintage Tur...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7' 10'' x 9' 7'' - 238 x 292 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8'1" x 9'8"

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 3' x 5' - 4"2 x 162 cm )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of green and cream. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 10".

Early 20th Century Oval Chinese Peking Carpet ( 5 2" x 7'10" - 157 x 240 )

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...

78174 Distressed Antique Chinese Peking rug, 08'08 x 11'00. Effortless beauty and understated elegance, this hand-knotted wool distressed antique Peking rug beautifully embodies rust...

The beige open field is centred by a miniature landscape roundel featuring a leafy tree growing from banded rocks. The border is similarly plain except for identical branch and f...

78231 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'04 x 11'08. Rendered in variegated shades of tan, sand, cerulean, ecru, blue, peach, rust, taupe, latte, and mocha with other accent colors. Des...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 9" x 11' 8" - 266x 355 cm )

76698, New Persian Style Rug with Traditional Kirman Design. This opulent hand-knotted wool Persian Kirman style rug features an intricate centre medallion with a stylized floral mot...

New World is the most dramatic of the Carini Water World series by Joseph Carini. A dark mysterious background is contrasted by bursts of powerful color. A luxurious and sophisticate...

Based on an original Asmara painting by Elizabeth Moisan inspired by a 14th century Tuscan villa. Yellow-green leaves and flowers, in shades of garnet, r...

Modern Floral Tibetan Handmade of Silk and Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 9'0" × 12'0" (274 × 365 cm) This contemporary Tibetan rug offers a refined expression of modern minimal...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 9'2" x 11'8".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'5" - 270 x 348 )

This charming ruglet displays a light pearl field centred by a tri-legged censer in red and shades of blue. Four blue-toned bats flutter about in the corners. Dark blue plain border....

77535 vintage Turkish Harker rug with Romantic Georgian Baroque style. With its intrinsic beauty and symmetrical composition, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Harker rug astoun...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with yellow-green color background. 11'4" x 13'9" - 345 x 420

Ningxia Pillar rug, XIX century. This special hand knotted carpet was wrapped around a pillar or a column of the buddhis temples or in the imperial palaces in China, Mongolia and Tibet ( in Tibet they were called Katum). This carpet surrounds the column creating a refined optical effect . This item brings in its decoration, a very important pattern of the imperial Chinese culture. Starting from the bottom, we can appreciate the proportion and the balance of the so called “Rainbow border”, consisting of parallel wavy stripes in a soft lovely combination of colors, radiating from the edge of the field. This kind of border was used only at the bottom of the rug in conjunction with the “sacred mountain” motif. The center of this pillar carpet is decorated with two opposite dragons linked by a bold “ruyi cloud” (in Chinese Ruyi means “as you wish”). The Ruyi cloud motif is used in earlier Chinese than are drifting clouds. The dragons represented in this pillar carpet, bring five claws, synonym of noble and monastic importance. The Chinese imperial carpets...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a violet central field surrounded by a wide brown border flanked by a thin inner indigo border, and a thin outer violet border, and wi...

73471 Antique Chinese Peking Accent Rug with Neoclassical Chinoiserie Style 03'00 x 05'09. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features an open center medallion with a ...

Antique Chinese rug, size: 9'10" x 14'8".

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

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

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 11'10" x 17'0".