Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 2'6" x 5'0".

Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pieces are k...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a gold inner stripe, wide indigo central st...

72180 Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style 11'00 x 14'05. This gorgeous antique Peking rug features a complex yet traditional design that spreads acros...

77760 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols, 12'03 x 19'08. Aside from the rich cultural symbolism attached to each image, the ambiguo...

The clear red field displays numerous Chinese vases and related objects with elaborate, colorful flowers, within a steel blue border of realistic lotuses. The pattern is asymmetric, ...

A beautiful contemporary modern design rug, hand knotted using finest wool bamboo silk in 3 x 2 ft / 90 x 60 cm. By Djoharian Design. Striped design rug hand-knotted in silk lilac ...

Vintage Chinese Peking Runner Art Deco 2'5" x 10'7" 74cm x 323cm "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco peking rug. It has beautiful rare colorway. This p...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a chic gray field surround by another gray border, and all overlaid with my...

A Tibetan tiger rug, hand knotted in Nepal. This traditional Tiger rug design is typically found on antique rugs called Khaden. It describes a small sized rug of about 3 x 6 ft that...

Rare Antique Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug Walter Nichols Bird 10' x 14'4" 305cm x 437cm Circa 1920 "This is a magnificent antique Art Deco rug with butterfly & bird design. With high ...

Carpets such as this one were woven in China during the Art Deco period in order to satisfy the demand in the West for decorative rugs designed in the Art Deco taste. Here the Art De...

Late 19th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet 16'2"x 18'6" - 493 x 564

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...

77260 Antique Chinese Peking Area rug with Traditional Chinoiserie style. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking area rug features a group of th...

This medium-weave urban interwar carpet displays a royal blue field centered on a giant polychrome flower and stem motif, with fluttering birds and butterflies. Vase and pots in the ...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a thin light indigo, wide dark indigo, and an outer thin cranberry stripe border. The field i...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a gorgeous sea-foam green field surrounded by a wide rust orange border. A potted peony lives in one corner while a gnarly tw...

19th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Dragon Embroidery 2'6" x 4'4" - 76 x 132

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

This is a beautiful handmade Turkish Art Deco wool rug with a beige field. It features blue, goldenrod, and black accent colors in a stunning tiger pictorial design. This rug measur...

Tsukdruk rugs are possibly the most representative examples of the Tibetan nomadic weaving tradition. Woven with lanolin-rich highland wool, these come in narrow strips constructed o...

This hand-woven reproduction Samarkand Khotan rug has an ivory field of counterposed pomegranate vines issued from delicate vases throughout, in tonal beige and medium blue tradition...

This beautiful handmade Turkish Art Deco wool rug has a red field. It features black, beige, pink, and turquoise accent colors in a stunning tiger pictorial design. This rug measure...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a beige orange field, pink, orange, purple, green, yello...

30970 Modern Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 10'00 x 13'09. Showcasing a unique bamboo design, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool...

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

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful indigo background surrounded by a complementary border with a pink, violet and indigo floral pattern.

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a fuchsia background, champagne colored border, and overlaid with myriad auspicious flowers including peonies, chrysanthemums...

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug i, sea green color. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original good condition. -condition: original good, -circa: 1970s, -size...

This 20th century Chinese carpet is unusual because it is an nearly square and it is monochromatic. The subtle sculpted border features a fretwork and bat pattern...

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in green and orange colors. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original good condition. -condition: original good, -circa: 1...

This antique Handwoven Chinese rug has a field with a central rectangular panel, the lower section with a bright orange-red part lozenge interlocking design with a central aubergine-...

A 20th century Chinese silk rug, with a simple Art Deco design, very decorative and finely hand knotted with silk velvet on silk foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury an...

The old gold field displays a low vase with spreading flowers at one end, grapes and grape leaves at the other, paeony groups at each side, all framed by a green border with more gra...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 13' 9'' x15' 3''

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 4'' - 275 x 345 cm )

Exquisite Beijing Chinese rug adorned with a captivating design and vibrant colors. Meticulously hand-knotted with wool velvet on a cotton foundation. The intricate pattern, featurin...

Nice little Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors with blue, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in pink and black colors. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original condition, it has some low pile areas. -condition: origin...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 3" x 6' 11".

A Tibetan Tiger rug, hand knotted in Nepal, silk and wool pile. This traditional Tiger rug design is typically found on antique rugs called Khaden. It describes a small sized rug of...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant fuchsia field surrounded by a wide turquoise border flanked by narrow gold and fuchsia stripes. Overlaying the border are wonderful large-scale peonies and scrolling vines, all woven in gold, gray, teal and pink.

This Rug is in excellent condition with high pile throughout the rug, cleaned and no stained, the ends and bindings of the rug are intact as original and there has not been any repai...

Full pile large Chinese Art Deco rug plum border, blue field Measures: 10' x 19'1".

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in ruby and burgundy shades. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original good condition. It has some floral accent with large peac...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan pictorial room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 4" x 11' 10"

77328 antique Chinese Art Deco oval rug with traditional chinoiserie style. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a plain neut...

Fine Art Deco period Chinese rug with a gold yellow base, border, vegetal and dragon. Hand- knocked wool on a cotton base. Art Deco period around 1930.

77854 vintage Garden Rabbit Hooked rug with French Country Cottage style 02'05 x 04'00. Warm and welcoming, this vintage garden rabbit hooked rug sho...

Rare Vintage Silk Chinese Rug Temple of Heaven Tapestry 6'2" x 8'9" (6' x 9') 188cm X 267cm Circa 1965 "This is a magnificent vintage...

An antique East Turkestan Khotan throw rug. The salmon-pink field of this lively small scatter from the Xinjiang oasis city of Khotan displays two wiry, openwork octagons in dark bro...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Chinese rug has a red frame, multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. Th...

Oval Art Deco Chinese rug in original good condition. The rug is made in wool, quite thick and soft.  

Chinese Ningxia Rug – Five Dragons Design – 440 × 381 cm This monumental antique Chinese Ningxia rug is a rare masterpiece, measuring an impressive 440 × 381 cm. Woven in the late Qi...

Step into a world of rare elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Rug, a true marvel from the 1920s that carries the allure of a bygone era. Crafted with precision in China, this rug is...

Chinese - Art Deco Rug 7' 10" x 11' 6"

77452 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'11 x 11'06. Like a moonlit garden glimpsed through the veil of twilight, this hand-knotted wool precious antique Chinese Art Deco rug unfurls w...

During the Art Deco period many designers commissioned their patterns to the city looms located in Tianjin through companies such as Nichols & Company. Some designs, such as this one...

A luminous Chinese Art Deco rug from the 1920s–30s, hand-knotted with a striking palette of deep indigo, lavender, and soft blush. A bold rectangular navy field anchors the design, s...