Manhattan - Rugs and Carpets

This Mid-20th century Persian Malayer rug, measuring 3' 8" x 5' 0", is a striking example of the region’s artistry, showcasing its signature balance of structure and fluidity. The fi...

Tribal Antique Northwest Persian Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Persian Rugs, Circa Date: 1880 – Size: 5 ft 5 in x 14 ft (1.65 m x 4.27 m) This Northwest Persian rug is unique...

This compact and solid west Persian Kurdish town carpet in a traditional format shows a navy indigo field scattered with complete flowers, rosettes, half ragged palmettes and goose n...

Aquarium is a mainstay in Joseph Carini's signature collections and is one of his most sought after designs. A luxurious and sophisticated carpet, this design is versatile for many d...

An antique Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 3" x 5' 10".

This interwar NW Persian well-woven carpet still has presence in the significantly abrashed field going from brick to light brown with a strong arabesque and flowering palmette allov...

Antique Persian Serapi Oriental rug, in Room size An antique Persian Serapi oriental rug, size 13'0" x 9'0", circa 1890. This handsome hand-kno...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'4" - 270 x 345 ) The royal blue field and old gold border are unified by Paeony and other flowering stems and by a tall bamboo branch, with...

A vintage Italian Art Deco rug from the mid-20th century. A true oddity. Brown and black leather squares alternate in a chessboard (checkerboard) ...

19th Century French Aubusson Carpet ( 9'3' x 13' - 282 x 396 )

19th Century American Shaker Rag Rug ( 3' x 12'6" - 90 x 380 )

Nazmiyal Collection Large Earthy Tones Chic Modern Central Asian Rug. Country of Origin: Central Asia, Circa date: Modern  

This Tiger rug embodies a traditional and versatile pattern, both contemporary and timelessly classic. Shown in gold and indigo, colored with vegetable dyes. Joseph Carini was inspir...

An antique Persian Malayer room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century in the Persian Karajeh style. Measures: 9'...

Beautifully Simplistic Geometric Antique Minimalist French Art Deco Design Area Rug, Country Of Origin / Rug Type: French Rug, Circa Date: 1930’s

This Herati rug is made of handspun wool and features a beautiful green field. Herati rugs have a similarity to Persian Tabriz and Bidjar rugs. Due to their high knot count and const...

Stunning Tribal Geometric Antique Persian Heriz Area Rug, Country of origin: Persia, Circa date: 1920

This is a fine example of the “covered ground” era of Kerman city work, with a cream field closely and evenly covered with a grape bunch, small leaf, flower, and curved and forked vi...

1920s Persian Sarouk Carpet ( 13' 8" x 14' - 417 x 427 )

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...

19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery ( 1'6" x 6' - 46 x 183 ) Originally the upper section of a larger, 2-piece altar frontal panel.

Vintage Persian Tabriz Rug 7'9 x 11'. A 1920s Persian Tabriz rug with an ivory ground and all-over pattern. The main border compliments the rug and the detail in this hand knotted pi...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, Size: ( 10'6" x 12'6" - 320 x 380 cm ) Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, 10'6" x 12'6" An elegant early 20th century Chinese Peking...

Antique Persian Bidjar Rug, Small size, circa 1900. A one-of-a-kind antique Persian Bidjar Oriental Carpet, hand-knotted with soft wool pile. This beautiful rug features a repeati...

Late 19th Century American Hooked Rug ( 2'8" x 4'11" - 82 x 150 )

A modern Tibetan rug from the 21st century with silk highlights inspired by western design and architecture. Measures: 3' 2" x 4' 11"

Our Mazandaran Collection highlights the minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era. These rugs are inspired by the kilims that ...

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

Beautiful Large Antique Persian Serapi Rug, Country of Origin: Persia, Circa Date: 1880

Ecuadorian carpet designed by Olga Fisch 13'4" x 11'0" Of Hungarian origin, Olga Fisch (1901-1991) emigrated in 1933, first to Morocco and in 1939 to Ecuador, ahead of the political instability wracking Europe. Already an artist and collector of folk art, Fisch quickly took to the local arts and crafts available in the Quito markets. Folk and Paleolithic cave art and established a workshop creating knotted pile carpets to her individualistic and unique designs. The firm continues today, as does the museum of (primarily) Ecuadorian folk art. Only domestic sheep wool is employed and the rugs are firmly symmetrically (Turkish) knotted on a cotton foundation at a density of 60,000 knots per square meter or about 40 knots per square inch. is a rare oval creation with the “Cabalito” pattern inspired by the folk embroidery on the “danzantes’ participants in the Corpus Christi processions from Cotopaxi, Ecuador. A number of these costumes are in the Olga Fisch Folk Art Museum in Quito. The pattern densely fills the ivory field with mobile figures, horses and vegetal motives. It is reminiscent of certain Greek Island women’s costume embroideries. Often the “Cabalito” pattern occupies an oval or lobed section on an otherwise plain rectangular carpet, but here is the pattern takes up almost all of the oval, with its energetic filigree of figures, fauna and flora. Olga Fisch carpets are as 1950s modern as they get and our examples cry out for the right Danish or Swedish modern furniture as their perfect accompaniments. Some Italian Murano glass table objects won’t hurt either. A Neutra or Schindler house in the Los Angeles hills is definitely the perfect context, but any midcentury ranch...

Antique Chinese Art deco rug, Room size, circa 1920 A one-of-a-kind antique Chinese Art deco oriental carpet, hand-knotted with medium thi...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design in a pale mauve tone over a seafoam green background. Measures: 12' 5" x 1...

This is a beautiful minimalistic flatweave rug in the style of Scandinavian modern. It's clean, well-designed lines give the rug a minimal sophistication that can work for any aesth...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 275 x 360 cm) Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Circa 1920 – 9' x 11'9" An elegant antique Chinese Peking rug, hand-knotted in woo...

An antique Persian Wagireh (Sampler) Mahal throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. This charming ruglet was originally used as a visual sampler to weave larger carpets. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 10" Persian Rugs...

The end-pointed and pinched navy field shows a reticulated rose diamond medallion supportedby a close scatter fill of stylized flowers, set within ecru corners. Red border with red ...

Vintage Circa 1940 Red Persian Sarouk Hand Knotted Rug, 6'9 X 9'9. The vintage rugs of Sarouk, from the Arak province town of that name and surrounding villages, were created to sati...

Early 20th Century French Aubusson Carpet with Louis XVI Inspired Design ( 9'8" x 10'2" - 295 x 310 cm )

This vintage flatweave pelas rug was handmade in Iran in the mid 20th century. This rug is handwoven with 100% handspun wool and natural dyes. size: 5'7"x9'1"

Mid 20 Century American Hooked Rug

A handmade contemporary reproduction of the timeless French Aubusson carpet in the style of Louis XV. The floral pattern consists of colors including rose, blue, and grey, over an Iv...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 4' 11".

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

Vibrant Antique Persian Sultanabad Rug with Rare Green Field, Country of origin: Persia, Circa date: 1900

Antique Horse Cover rug, Size: 2'2"x4'4".

1930s French Art Deco Carpet ( 8'5" x 10'5" - 257 x 318 )

Vintage Persian Sarouk Oriental rug, circa 1930, Room size A vintage Persian Sarouk oriental rug, size 10'1" x 8'3", circa 1930. This lovely hand-knotted wool rug features an intr...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 6' 8".

19th Century American Hooked Rug ( 7'6" x 8'9" - 228 x 266 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'8" x 9'5" - 234 x 287 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'10" - 17'4" - 360 x 528 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

1920s Persian Manchester Kashan, Size: 12' 3" x 30' 3"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10'2" x 17' - 310 x 518 )

Beautiful Room Size Antique Sultanabad Persian Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Persian Rug, Circa Date: 1880. Size: 10 ft 4 in x 14 ft (3.15 m x 4.27 m).

This original Vintage Moroccan Beni Ourain rug that were produced by the nomadic Berber tribes in North Africa for centuries. Beni Ourain rugs are identified by their geometric line...

This Mid-20th century Persian Flatweave Kilim rug, measuring 6' 1" x 7' 7", showcases a rustic striped design rooted in traditional Persian tribal weaving. The alternating bands of e...

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 8" x 11' 8", beautifully showcases the refined aesthetic of traditional Khotan weaving. The design features an elegant compo...

19th Century N.W. Persian Bakshaiesh Carpet ( 11'2"x 15'6" - 340 x 472 )

From the post-WWII modernist period, this French pile carpet in good condition shows a complex geometric all-over textile pattern of interlocking circles and small orange-rust fat qu...