Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A vintage Chinese pictorial Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 1"

This hand-knotted wool rug showcases Art Deco style and features a goldenrod field complemented by a designed frame. The traditional Chinese floral design has stunning multi-colored ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'10" - 185 x 270 )

One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Nichols rug Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found along the ancient "Silk route"...

A Chinese Nichols factory wool carpet or rug with a scattered floral motif. Displaying several colors, flowers are located on the two long borders. A tag is located under the carpet ...

Originating from China, circa 1920-1930, this 5x8 antique Chinese Art Deco Peking rug, hand-knotted in wool, features regal floral patterns and borders on a blue field. On the Desi...

One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Nichols rug Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found along the ancient "Silk route"...

Hand knotted in wool, an 8x10 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts a bold open field from this p...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 )

77189 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'02 x 09'05. Maximalist style meets sensual decadence in this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug. The elaborate floral details and s...

Hand knotted in wool, a 9x12 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts an all over floral pattern in ...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a mauve central field covered in myriad auspicious flowers including peonies, chrysanthemum, and cherry blossoms, and potted ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6 'x 8'6" - 183 x 260 )

Hand knotted in wool, a 9x12 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: This rug recaptures the Chinese Art Deco rug sty...

A splendid 5x6 Peking rug of sought-after Chinese antiquity in a traditional Peking style floral pattern. On the Design: Hand knotted in wool circa 1920-1930, the design displays ...

Hand knotted in wool, a 9x12 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts an all over floral pattern in ...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a wide indigo border, and all overlaid with multi-colored auspicious flowers including peonie...

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...

Vintage Chinese Art Deco rug, Origin: China, circa early 20th century – Size: 7 ft 9 in x 10 ft (2.36 m x 3.05 m) This sleek Chinese Art Deco rug fe...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brown field surrounded by a wide cream and thin brown striped border, and all overlain with a flowering peony and a hanging...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'6"- 267 x 351 )

Blue Background Chinese Art Deco Rug with Large Vining Flowers and Leaves. Keivan Woven Arts / rug X23-0603, country of origin / type: China / Art Deco, circa 1920. Measures: 9'0 x 1...

Pioneered by Walter Nichols, an American in China whose workshops were active from 1924 into the 1930s, Chinese Art Deco carpets represent a real high point in the history of 20th Ce...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'8'' - 183 x 265 )

Made in hand knotted wool from the custom Classic Burano Collection by Rug & Kilim, this 2 × 3 this 2 × 3 rug is available as a gift-sized rug for both flooring and wall-hanging projects. Drawing inspiration from an 18th century Chinese rug...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 7'10" x 9'6" - 240 x 290 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 6' x 8'9" - 183 x 267 )

A Tibetan rug with antique Chinese design, hand knotted in Nepal. This traditional rug design is typically found on antique rugs from China. The blue ground is often found in Peki...

One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Nichols rug Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found along the ancient "Silk route"...

Vintage Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug Pink Wool Carpet 269cm x 351cm 8'10" x 11'6" 9x12 "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco rug with a magnificent pink colorway and unique f...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 265 x 345 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'7" x 11' - 262 x 335 )

These handmade carpet wool rugs have airy and fiery elements grounded by splashing waves and jutting peaks, providing a sense of balance and tradition. Borrowing from the new and the...

Presenting an enchanting mid-century Chinese rug featuring a captivating Chinese Art Deco design. The rug boasts a harmonious blend of colors, including a mesmerizing green field, al...

An early 20th-century Chinese Peking scatter-size rug in neutral tones Measures: 3' x 5'9''.

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Feti rug with a solid mauve central field surrounded by a border with an indigo meandering motif and repeated floral inner stripe and a wide re...

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

1920s Chinese At Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'4" - 267 x 345 )

Vintage 1980s Silk Chinese Art Deco Style Silk Carpet ( 6'2" x 9' - 188 x 275 )

One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Peking rug with a beautiful pink beige field surrounding a gorgeous floral medallion. Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found al...

One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Peking rug with a beautiful Maroon field surrounding a gorgeous floral medallion. Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found along ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6'' - 245 x 290 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4' x 6'9" - 122 x 206 )

Introducing a stunning mid-century Chinese rug featuring exquisite Chinese Art Deco-style design and captivating colors. This entirely hand-knotted masterpiece showcases a central na...

Vintage Art Deco rug dragon chinese wool carpet pink peach 8' x 10' 244cm x 305cm "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco dragon rug. It has b...

Introducing a stunning contemporary Chinese rug featuring an exquisite blend of geometric and stylized floral Art Deco design. Crafted with meticulous attention, this rug boasts a pa...

One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Peking rug with a beautiful pink beige field surrounding a gorgeous floral medallion. Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found al...

A vintage Tibetan Art Deco accent rug designed and signed by Nini Ferrucci, and handmade during the late 20th century. Measures: 6' 9" x 8' 3"

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3' x 4' - 91 x 122 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'10'' - 275 x 360 )

Pair of 1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 4' - 61 x 122 )

An antique Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 14' 10"

A LOT OF TWO HAND KNOTTED CHINESE Art Deco ROUND RUGS 1920s. The larger, with multi colour floral design on black ground with a crimson centre the smaller, in predominantly bei...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo field surrounded by a lacy floral and scrolling vine border with an oval cutout framing a garden landscape with...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4' 8" - 92 x 142 cm )

An antique Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 8' 10" x 11' 5"

78301 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. ​Emulating sensual decadence with maximalist style and lavish texture, this antique Chinese Art Deco rug cultivates a desire for bo...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 9"