Manhattan - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 7' x 11'8" - 213 x 356 )

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

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

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...

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...

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".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with a purple color background ( 8'10" x 11'4" - 270 x 345 )

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. ...

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 10' x 19'   

Antique Chinese Rug, Size: 10'3" x13'9".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 12' x 17' 6" - 366 x 533 cm )

Large Decorative Antique Chinese Dragon Design Rug, Country of Origin: China, Circa Date: 1900

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 10'' x 14' 7'' - 360 x 444 cm )

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Carpets ( 3' x 4'10" -90 x 148 )

Antique Chinese Silk Rug, Measures: 3' 5''x 5' 7''.

A Mid-Century Chinese Deco carpet.

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 10'2" x 12'8" - 310 x 385 )

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...

The old gold field displays a low vase with spreading flowers at one end, grapes and grape leaves at the other, paeony groups at each side, all framed by a green border with more gra...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'8" x 13'2" - 295 x 402 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'1'' x 9'7'' - 245 x 292 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 9'0" x 12'0".

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5' x 8'1'' - 152 x 246 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 2' 6'' x 19' 3'' - 76 x 586 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 15' - 297 x 457 )

The clear red field displays numerous Chinese vases and related objects with elaborate, colorful flowers, within a steel blue border of realistic lotuses. The pattern is asymmetric a...

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....

Beneath the tasseled lambrequin, the scaly, five claw dragon rises trailing coiled clouds on the dark blue ground above a five-point “mountain” within frothing surf. Below is a rainb...

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...

Antique Chinese Nepal rug, size: 8' 3'' x 8' 8''.

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 9' x 12'

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 9'0" x 11'8".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug 5' 2" x 7' 10"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 274 x 358 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3'1" x 5'10" - 94 x 178 )

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet With 100 Antiques Pattern ( 10' 8" x 14' 4" - 325 x 437 cm )

Probably Fette, with peonies and oak leafy style bushes growing from fretwork sections at each end of the dark blue field.  Pair of Vintage Chinese Peking Rugs, circa 1960 – 2'8" x ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7'' - 270 x 353 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'3'' x 9'7'' - 252 x 292 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 6'0" x 8'9".

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

A modern Turkish tantric accent rug from the 21st century with a pictorial design of a flayed man over a black field. Original versions were employed by ...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 13'8" x 24' - 417 x 732 cm )

19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 10'6" x 15' - 320 x 457 )