Turkey - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

An antique East Turkestan Khotan accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 11"

Nice embroidery panel with dragon design entirely hand embroidered with silk on silk Dragon designs are on relief.

Late 18th Century N.W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 2' x 3'4" - 62 x 102 ) In remarkably prefect condition considering it age.

A pillow made from a 19th-century Chinese rug. Zipper closure and insert included. Measures: 17” x 18''.

Handmade Chinese Art-Deco Rug - 11'-8" x 8'-1"

This elegant vintage Chinese rug is a classic example of the Peking style, woven in the late 20th century during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic era (circa 1980–1990). Desi...

A sweet petite mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a gray background and clusters of peonies woven in pale pinks, yellows, greens, and blues live in opposite corners.

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 8" Chinese Rugs Carpet: 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...

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, size: 2'0" x 2'0".

This is a beautiful antique handwoven silk Khotan rug from Xinjiang, Western China, measuring approximately 1'9" × 1'10". Woven with a silky, lustrous pile on a cotton foundation, th...

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

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, Size: 3'0" x5'6".