Wool Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A flower basket is suspended into the red field by a thin cord from a rosette and stem upper design, while a more elaborate floral display below includes banded scholars’ rocks and s...

1980s Vintage Needlepoint Carpet ( 7'10'' x 9'6''- 240 x 290 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 14'6" - 305 x 442 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 9" x 11' 8" - 266x 355 cm )

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a gorgeous champagne colored field surrounded by a thin cranberry stripe and a wide outer indigo stripe. Scholars ricks appea...

Title: Timeless Elegance: A Handmade Art Deco Chinese Wool Carpet from the 1920s Introduction: Step into a world of exquisite craftsman...

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Kansu Carpet ( 11'6" x 12' - 350 x 365 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 9' x 11' 6'' - 275 x 350

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 6'8" x 9'8" - 205 x 295 )

A striking example of Himalayan textile artistry, this 19th Century Tibetan Saddle Blanket features a richly woven floral pattern in shades of navy, blue, pink, yellow, and red. Originating from Tibet in the late 1800s, this blanket exemplifies the vibrant aesthetics and skilled craftsmanship of Tibetan weavers. Uniquely constructed, the piece is formed by joining two individually woven floral panels, creating a balanced and harmonious composition intended for practical use as a saddle blanket. The original red cloth backing remains intact, and the textile is in excellent condition considering its age and intended use. Both decorative and historically significant, this antique textile is ideally suited for display as wall art, offering texture, color, and cultural depth to interiors ranging from global-inspired and bohemian to traditional and eclectic. As a rare piece of 19th-century Tibetan equestrian decor, it captures the spirit of nomadic life and adds a sense of journey and history to any space. Dimensions: 28” x 42” Date of Manufacture: 4th Quarter of the 1800s Place of Origin: Tibet Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation Condition: Wear consistent with age and use The Persian Knot Gallery, SKU: 2125 Tibetan Saddle Blanket, Tibetan Rugs, Tibetan Horse Blanket...

1920s Chinese Art Debackground measuring 9' x 11'9" Green background with yellow border.

Antique Chinese - Mongolian Rug 5' 9''x7' 10''

19th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet. 7' x 9'6 - 213 x 290

1930s Square Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 12' - 355 x 365 cm )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x9 rare antique Chinese Peking rug, circa 1850-1860, is one of the provenance’s most special pictorial rugs in the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design...

A fine Peking type carpet woven by an honeycomb arrangement of polychrome lozenges with an almost random color distribution. Carpets of this type are representative of an early 20th...

This is an antique Tibetan rug woven during the first quarter of the 20th century circa 1920 and measures 150 X 85CM in size. Its design consists of two geometric medallions with a c...

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Dragon Carpet ( 9'8" x 12' - 295 x 365 )

A rare and unusual Chinese rug decorated with an all-over pattern of eight-petalled rosettes, joined together to form a lattice in the negative of which is the longevity motif, that ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Mat ( 1'7'' x 2' - 48 x 60 )

A bold early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant gold field with a large multi-colored peony cluster in one corner.

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5' x 8'1'' - 152 x 246 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 275 x 358 )

Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet with Dragons ( 9'x 12' - 275 x 365 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco rug handmade during the mid-20th century predominantly in red, green, and antique white, and with accent colors in silver, beige, pink, blue, and orange , ...

1920s Round Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 3' - 92 x 92 cm )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'7'' - 275 x 353 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8 8" x 11'2" - 265 x 340 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 264 x 345 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 3'0" x 5'10".

An antique East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 13' 1".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 9" 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...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 9'10" x 15'6".

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

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet 8'6" x 9'6"

Early 20th Century Peking Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'8" - 250 x 295 )

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'6'' - 275 x 350 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Meausres 2' 0'' x 2' 0''.

Antique Chinese - Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'8". Dragon design in borders.  

Early 20th Century Chinese (Inner Mongolian) Peking Carpet (6'5" x 9'-195 x275)

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Dragon Carpet ( 3'10''x 6'2'' - 117 x 188 )

A rare dark blue chair seat with a fierce writhing central dragon and four surrounding similar creatures. Clouds are scattered about. A mountain, wave...

Distinguished by an unusual all-over grid pattern on a soft lemon yellow background, this carpet is an example of the eclecticism of Chinese weavings in ...

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 90 x 152 )

1920s Chinese Baotou Saddle Cover ( 2' x 4'2" - 61 x 127 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 12'4" x 14'3" - 376 x 434 )

This elegantly hand woven rug is from China and woven from the finest wools to create a soft and luxurious piece that will work well in so many different settings. Size: 2' X 3'-9"

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 3'0" x 5'4".

Made with fine quality hand spun wool yarns, this handmade cut and loop pile rug has natural variations in colors and texture similar to antique rugs. Ha...

The fine carpets of Peking represent the other end of the spectrum of Chinese textile art, expressing a late Qing dynasty aesthetic that is based o...

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'8" - 91 x 142 )

Mid-19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5'2" x 10'2" - 157 x 310 )

The border-less open royal blue field shows a large and a small floral bouquet diagonally opposed, but linked by a continuous sketchy light blue cloud meander, almost like smoke from a dying fire...

A gorgeous early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with large clusters of multicolored lotus and chrysanthemums in each corner on dark indigo background. The border is exciting with ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 2'4" x 4' - 70 x 122 )

Authentic Vintage Chinese Art Deco Wool Rug Size: 5'7" × 7'8" (170 × 233 cm) This striking wool area rug, crafted circa 1940s, is a superb example of Chinese Art Deco design, disting...

A brilliant Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful cranberry field surrounded by a wide grey border. Multicolored potted peonies, chrysanthemum, and prunus flowers are asymmetrically ...

A rare and unusual Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period characterised by an all-over pattern of tone on tone lotus flowers scrolling on a soft cream background within a circula...