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Handmade Antique Peking/ Art Deco pictorial Chinese Rug, 1'5" x 1'5" , c-1920's, in Ivory color background with pictorial traditional design of Chinese village. The rugs are in excel...

Chinese Art Deco Mat scatter size rug Measure: 2'11'' x 4'10''.

On the lookout for a new carpet to enhance your living room or bedroom? This Beautiful rug could make the perfect accessory. This elegant wool needlepoint is a classic example of a modern Portuguese style rug woven by hand in China in the early 21st century. The design has been delicately woven with a symmetrical pattern made up of brown and mustard accents on a subtle cream background. The border has been decorated with a repeating pattern design and is finished with a fringed edge. Constructed with only the best locally sourced materials with traditional techniques, this fine wool rug is sure to last for generations. The fine materials used include hand-spun wool and cotton that have been organically dyed with vegetable dyeing techniques. This rug is in excellent condition. Ready for use in any home or office environment. Traditional needlepoint rug...

Rare antique Art Deco rug Chinese rug antique Chinese rug 3'10" x 6'6" 4' x 7' 110cm x 199cm Circa 1920 "Beautiful antique Art Deco rug...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a dragon in black, blue, red, goldenrod, and light blue-grey over a cream-white borderless field. Measures: 1' 3" x 1' 6" 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...

This elegant handmade carpet was constructed in the 1990s in China. The central design has been woven on a pink field with peach, purple and green accent colours that make up the flo...

"Antique Peking Beijing Carpet China" This beautiful antique Beijing Chinese rug, alive with exotic colors and patterns, presents charming bucolic sc...

This simple yet elegant needlepoint tapestry has been woven by hand in colors of red and beige. The central design has been woven on a rust-red background and features a symmetrical floral medallion. This is then framed by a detailed beige cream border that draws the eye to create a beautiful accent rug. This style of rugs is best known as Aubusson, recognized today as one of the most influential European rugs and Tapestries designs. Constructed in China where weavers replicate the same traditional techniques used in the antique pieces made in Aubusson, central France. Aubusson designs frequently draw reference from Art Nouveau and Renaissance style and can be paired with other decorative arts from 1890-1910 and modern styles of the 21st century. Style this beautiful wool needlepoint as a wall hanging or as a floor rug in your bedroom, kitchen, dining room, living room or entranceway. Suitable for any room in your home and easy to style with modern and Classic interiors. Traditional Aubusson style rug area carpet...

This beautifully handwoven Aubusson rug is sure to make a great accent piece in any room it’s introduced too. An ivory blue color makes up the background of this elegant area rug. Th...

An authentic mid-20th century Medium even Pile Chinese Art Deco wool rug Measures: 4'1'' x 6'10''.

Chinese Silk Embroidery From Mid 19th Century ( 5" x 3' - 13 x 92 cm )    

9x12 Rare Antique Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug Tree of Life rug 267cm x 346cm 8'9" x 11'4" 9x12 Circa 1920 "This is a magnificent unique antique Art Deco rug. It has a fine quality, and fabulous colorway. This piece has incredible design elements including a tree of life, vase, butterflies and exotic flowers. Pieces like this are hard to come by and are extremely desired."-Antique Rug Collection Size 8'9" X 11'4" Serial ID # 20894k Design Art Deco Metric Size 267cm x 346cm Age 1920 Antique Category Art Deco Pattern Art Deco, Exotic Flowers Material 100% Hand Knotted Wool Foundation Material Cotton Color Grey, Beige, Pink, Blue, Ivory, Orange, Green, Yellow Quality High Quality Condition Great Condition, Minute low area About Us~ Welcome to Antique Rug Collection. Your #1 Source for handmade Antique Rugs & Tapestries at great prices, curated by leading industry expert. We are a 6th Generation antique rug shop with 48+ years of experience working with designers, private clients, dealers, and really anyone looking for a unique antique rug at a great price. We've made an imprint selling rugs...