Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish rug derived from an antique Khotan rug with zipper closure included. Love the color combination and its a lumbar size. Measures: 16" x 23'.

This early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 3' 1" x 5' 0", showcases a vibrant composition rooted in Central Asian tradition. The brick-red field is densely populate...

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

Stunning large Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful floral design on a grey field and plum border. Most found in Room size formats in th...

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

a square size chinese peking rug from the 3rd quarter of the 20th century 8'5'' x 9'4''

Antique Peking rug Chinese Art Deco rug pink purple handmade Chinese rug 2x3 2'4" x 3'4" 71cm x 102cm "This is a beautiful antique...

1920s Chinese Batou Scatter size Rug Details rug no. j2234 size 3' x 6' 1" (91 x 185 cm)

Gorgeous late 19th century chinese Ningxia rug, soft pile, desirable colors and subject with 4 dragons and traditional Chinese design

This Mid-20th century Chinese Peking Art Deco rug, measuring 8' 0" x 9' 10", is a striking example of the bold design and rich color palette characteristic of the Art Deco period. Th...

Colorful late 20th century Tibetan rug Measures: 3'1" x 5'7".

Floral motif Pictorial mid 20th century Tibetan rug Measures: 3'1" x 5'1".

Pillow made from an old Chinese rug predominantly in green. zipper closure and polyfill provided Measures: 23'' x 23''.

This early 20th century Chinese Peking Art Deco rug, measuring 8' 10" x 11' 8", showcases a distinctive linear design that captures the innovative spirit of the Art Deco era. The rug...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Fetti - Li Workshop 4' 6''x 7' 6''-137 x 228

1930s Chinese Art Deco Palace Size Rug Details rug no. j2845 size 11' 11" x 22' 9" (363 x 693 cm) Most found in Room size formats in...

An early 20th century Tibetan dragon horse cover textile rug, circa 1900, measures: 2'5" x 4'.

Rare short and narrow antique soft blue Chinese runner.

Late 20th-century narrow Tibetan Runner Measures: 1'7'' x 8'4''

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'10" - 275 x 360 cm )

An early 20th century Chinese Peking carpet in tan and blue colors featuring a whimsical motif. Even Full Pile Condition circa 1920, measures: 3'8'' x 5'7".

A late 20th-century Chinese Silk rug in beige, light blue and navy Measures: 3' x 4'11''.

A modern East Turkestan Khotan oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 17' 7" x 19' 9"

This exquisite Mid-20th century Chinese Nickles Art Deco rug, measuring 8' 10" x 11' 4", features a lush magenta field adorned with a beautifully detailed floral composition. The asy...

an early 20th Century Chinese rug with a floral design in cream, blue, yellow and brown Measures: 8'11'' x 11'5''.

Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century feauturing a bright orange field Measures: 3'2'' x 5'6''.

A broad cream strapwork decorated with paeonies and frets, shapes the lavender field with its symmetric small leaf pattern. Very creative use of the border/field division. Rounded ...

An early 20th-century Chinese Peking carpet in tan and blue colors featuring a whimsical motif. circa 1920 measures: 4'1'' x 5'9"

Early 20th Century Oval Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' x 6'8" - 122 x 203 )

an early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan Pictorial rug Measures: 5'8'' x 8'8''.

An early-20th-century scatter size Chinese rug in a faded watery blue color, accents in ivory and pink Measures: 3'2 x 4'9''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 10' 8" x 11' 8"

The straw field of this Interwar Art Deco piece shows a flowering plant, complete with leaves and blossoms and a rising stem, with a pagoda in a mini-landscape in one corner and a pa...

Chinese Nichols art deco scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 2'7'' x 4'11''

An early 20th-century oversize decorative Chinese rug with an all-over design on a faded peach field accents in brown, light blue, green, ivory. The design seems to be derived from l...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet on Black Background with Dargons & Flaming Pearls ( 7'10" x 9'8" - 238 x 295 cm )

A minimalist one-of-a-kind vintage Chinese rug in blues. Measures: 2'3'' x 2'5''.

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

an early 20th Century Chinese rug with an elegant all-over floral design throughout. Mesaures: 12'8'' x 19'5''.

Stunning deep blue and ivory accent full pile condition antique Chinese Peking rug, circa 1920. Measures: 4' x 6'9".

A 2nd quarter of the 20th century blue Tibetan Plush Pile Rug Measures: 5'4" x 7'3".

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 6" x 11' 11"

This hand-loomed Tibetan wool blanket is a rare vintage piece. Its thick pile would have been used for sleeping on or under during the cold nights in the Himalayas. In Tibet, it woul...

Tiger by Joseph Carini with a gold yellow background and pink, black and white details. A tiger print forms from these multicolor lines that form a chevron pattern. Inspired by Tibet...

Early 20th Century Blue Color Antique Khotan Gallery size rug Details rug no. j2674 size 6' 10" x 13' 2" (208 x 401 cm)

Bolster size Pillow made from a antique chinese rug Measures: 9" x 20".  

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 6'10" - 152 x 208 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'10" - 280 x 360 )

A Chinese silk pictorial animal motif rug from the 3rd quarter of the 20th century 4'2'' x 5'11''

A modern East Turkesan Khotan large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 11' 5" x 14' 3"

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

A rare 6 foot square an early 20th century Chinese rug with a graphic Chinese Motif in slate and blue Measures: 6' x 6'1".

An early 20th century Chinese Peking Dragon motif rug with a spacious open field design on an ivory ground Measures: 7'3'' x 9'7'' Chinese dragons are an important and powerful...

An early 20th century eclectic Khotan rug in predominant khaki and rusts. 6'4'' x 9'7'' Antique Khotan rugs and carpets were produced in Western China. Khotan or Hotan as some call...

Scatter size Chinese Peking rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 1'11" x 3'7".

Colorful late 20th century Tibetan rug. Measures: 3' x 5'6".

Chinese Nichols art deco room size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 9' x 11'6''

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 beau...

An early 20th-century colorful Tibetan horse cover textile rug. Measures: 2'1'' x 4'7''.

A pillow made from a 19th century Chinese rug. Zipper closure and insert included Measures: 19” x 25'.