Animal Skin Chinese and East Asian Rugs

An unusual vintage Indian rug woven with a Chinese Art Deco style pattern containing bouquets of flowers woven in various shades of green, pink, cranbe...

Antique Chinese horse cover, Size: 2'0" x 4'0".

Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 3rd quarter of the 20th century with a dragon motif Measures: 3'4'' x 5'7''.

A 3rd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a dragon motif on a beige field Size: 4'4'' x 6'10''.  

Late 19th century colorful antique Khotan gallery rug. The field is a bone color, denim blue, rust accents are dominant. Measures: 5'8" x 12'11".

Colorful late 20th century Tibetan rug with a lovely floral design Measures: 2'11'' x 5'9".

This is an antique felt Tibetan rug woven during the 18th century and measures 154 x 89 cm in size. This is an extremely rare piece that has been mounted on a black backing to preser...

This Kandinsky silk rug from the late 20th century stands as a testament to abstract brilliance. Compact at 122 x 99 cm, it encapsulates Kandinsky's avant-garde vision in a tangible ...

Measures: 5' x 7'7. This enchanting east Chinese rug incorporates five symbols of longevity: the deer, the crane, a tree, rocks and water. Originally of Chinese origin, the symbols took on a secular presence within Tibetan art. The four corners contain objects that are artistic and scholarly in nature. The rug was probably intended to bring the owner the good fortune of a long life matched with great intelligence and artistic ability. Antique Chinese pictorial rug with deer...

Vintage Art Deco Rug Dragon Chinese Wool Carpet Pink Peach "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco dragon rug. It has beautiful rare colorway. Thi...

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...

A vintage Indonesian Textile rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 8' 9".