Chinese and East Asian Rugs

21st Century Vintage Inspired Khotan rug with an all-over pomegranate motif 11'11'' x 17' Khotan rugs are typically found in a long and relatively narrow format with simplistic spacious designs great for American home décor. For thousands of years these lands of arid steppes, deserts, and brutal mountain ranges were traversed by caravans of merchants and traders from China to Western Europe along the silk route...

A stunning late 19th century Chinese Peking rug with a champagne colored field covered with pattern of auspicious flowers, bats, and scholar's objects scattered around a central phoe...

78184 Antique Pink Chinese Art Deco Rug, 05'02 x 07'11. Antique Chinese Art Deco rugs emerged as a distinct style during the 1920s and 1930s in China, seamlessly marrying traditional...

A 9 Dragon Chinese rug in red field. Measures: 8 x 10 ft. This traditional dragon rug design is typically found on antique rugs from Beijing / Peking and Ningxia. On this rug it sho...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This piece has multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 7'1...

A remarkable early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant chartreuse green field surrounded by a wide gold and lavender stylized cloud motif border. Two large peacocks live in one corner, and rest on a scholar's rock amidst auspicious peonies, prunus, and bamboo in a pond. A crescent moon and clouds...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'2" x14'6" - 340 x 442 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 6' x 11' 8" - 183 x 355 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 15 - 305 x 458 cm )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 16' - 305 x 490 cm )

Antique handmade Chinese area rug made from fine wool and all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for people and pets. This beautiful piece features a rich field of floral details in bright colors that was so popular in the 1920s when the Art Deco movement flourished and permeated every facet of American lifestyle including home decor and interior design. This area rug has oversize dimensions of 12'2" x 22'8" that works well in large open spaces. It has the classic Art Deco design which matches perfectly with modern and contemporary interiors. Fun facts about rug names: Chinese Art Deco rugs were made popular by Walter Nichols who introduced a mechanical style of wool production that resulted in strands that were thicker compared to what traditional rug makers were using. He established a workshop in Northern China and began making rugs inspired by the Art Deco movement boom that flourished from the 1920s-1930s. Today, authentic Nichols Art Deco rugs...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco round rug with a dark indigo field surrounded by a thin taupe stripe and wide burgundy stripe border, overlaid with multi-colored peon...

77561, distressed antique Chinese Peking rug with Romantic chinoiserie style1. This hand knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open center medallion floating on an abrashed blue field. The medallion is comprised of a swirl of floral motifs surrounding a fretwork pattern with a small rosette in the center. Peonies and butterflies gracefully surround the medallion. Peonies are one of the most treasured symbols throughout Chinese art and design; the flower is seen to represent unparalleled beauty and honor. Butterflies are thought to represent happiness. Delicate scrollwork adorns the spandrels, echoing the floral tendrils and butterfly shapes in the field design. A gorgeous traditional peony border frames the composition. The restrained color palette based around shades of blues, creams, and apricot accents, creates a sense of serenity and elegance. With its Classic design, well-harmonized color palette, and graceful floral motifs, this antique Chinese Peking rug would be a refined, yet comfortable, addition to any interior. It is rendered in variegated shades of royal blue, true blue, indigo...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This piece has a red frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This ...

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

Spectacular palace size Art Deco rug, circa 1920/1930's. The rug features a tan, or mustard, center field bordered in blue , then mustard again, it has a restrained floral motif thr...

78175 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial rug with Gazebo & Pagoda Scene 09'01 x 11'02. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco ...

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

A wonderful Chinese Art Deco runner with a gray field with five multi-colored cherry blossom medallions surrounded by an indigo border with mor...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4' 10'' x 8' 6'' - 147 x 259 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'7" - 280 x 353 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5' x 7'10" - 143 x 238 cm )

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Chinese rug has a tan frame in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 9'1" x 11'5"...

1920s Chinese Oval Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2'' x 7'9'' - 188 x 236 )

An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4" 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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

77615 distressed antique Chinese Art Deco oval rug 03'00 x 04'09. This hand-knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Art Deco style rug features a bea...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 4' x 6'8" - 122 x 204 )

Antique Handmade Art Deco Chinese rug 6'11" x 8'8" Oval, Indulge in timeless elegance with our exquisite antique Art Deco Chinese carpet. A mesmerizing navy blue backdrop gracefully ...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a green field. This Chinese rug has a purple and black wide frame and multi-color accent colors in a gorgeous all-over C...

78243 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 11'10 X 14'00. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a color-blocked field and border scheme festooned with glorious sprays...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 6'' - 275 x 350 cm )

77426 antique Tibetan wool tea cozy with dragon design, late 19th century tea cosy. With its exotic dragon pictorial design and vibrant colors, this hand knotted wool antique Tibetan Tea...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'6" - 267 x 350 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 17' 6'' - 305 x 535 cm )

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with the goldenrod field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese f...

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

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with the gray field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy and goldenrod frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional ...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic Chinese floral design, circa 1920. This rug measures 9'...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, 2'6" x 4'8", c-1920, curious Bird. Handwoven with natural dyed of soft wool pile, in gold and purple background color and traditional and unique floral ...

This is a semi-antique hand-knotted silk Chinese rug with an Art Deco design woven circa 1970 - 2000 and measures 241 x 167 CM in size. Its field is made with a combination of geomet...

Step into a world of timeless elegance with our captivating Antique Handmade Art Deco Chinese Rug, a remarkable oval-shaped treasure measuring 2'5" x 4'10". Crafted in the 1920s, thi...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 297 cm )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with a floral design, size: 9'0" x 11'6".

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, 4'10" x 7'9", c-1920, tree of knowledge. Handwoven with natural dyed of soft wool pile, in cream border and purple background color and traditional and ...

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

Antique handmade Peking/ Art Deco Chinese carpet, c-1910's 9' x 11'4", Blue background color and floral design and Chinese motive patterns. This rug is in excellent condition and it ...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 92 x 153 cm )

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

30569 New Contemporary Chinese Art Deco style rug Inspired by Walter Nichols. Channeling the famed Walter Nichols style of the 1920s and 1930s, this hand knotted wool new contemporary Chinese Art Deco rug...

A pillow made from an early 20th century Chinese Peking rug with a pictorial motif. Measures: 15" x 21".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 4'8'' - 92 x 142 cm )

This very rare antique rug is hand woven in china circa 1920. With indigo blue field and a taupe border, decorated with red/maroon plum blossom and in one corner with an emperor pala...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' 1'' x 13' 4'' - 305 x 405 )

77454 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols with Jazz Age Style 08'08 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a color-blocked field an...

Beautiful antique Peking Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field. This Chinese rug has a tan frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design....