Asian Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Oval Antique Ivory Cloud Band Background Chinese Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: China Rug, Circa date: 1920. Size: 9 ft x 11 ft 7 in (2.74 m x 3.53 m)

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 8' - 152 x 244 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 8' 0'' x 8' 0''.

Antique Chinese rug, Origin: China, circa 1900. Size: 1 ft 9 in x 2 ft (0.53 m x 0.61 m).  

Beautiful Vintage Art Deco Chinese hand knotted wool rug with a green field. This rug has a frame of red, brown, and multi-color accents in an all-over floral Chinese design. This...

An antique Central Asian Samarkand room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 8' 3" x 10' 2".

Earl;y 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'9" - 250 x 300 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'8" - 183 x 264 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 90 x 152 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10'6" x 15'6" - 320 x 472 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 10".

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...

Originating from China, this new transitional wool rug employs an homage to 18th century Aubusson style in an all-over field design with distinct...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 5'9" x 6'8".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'6'' - 280 x 350 )

Vintage Uzbek Bukhara rug in original good condition from the middle of 20th century. The rug has been made in red wool. - Condition: original good, - circa 1960s, - Size:...

Antique Chinese - Peking rugs, size: 9' 3'' x 12' 2''.

Beautiful 20th century Chinese pictural rug, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and craft...

Beautiful antique Scatter Samarkand Khotan rug, hand-knotted wool with an orange field, tan and brown accents in the pictorial design, This rug measures 5' x 8' 7". Circa the 1920s.

A beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand knotted wool rug with green field. This rug has a frame of red and multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. Thi...

77809 vintage Chinese Floral Kilim rug with English Country cottage style 04'02 x 06'03. Cleverly composed and distinctively well-balanced, this hand-woven wool vintage Chinse floral...

Antique Khotan Samarkand gallery size rug. This antique Khotan rug from China flaunts symmetrical branching patterns woven in chocolate and creams that cover a soft blue and crème ce...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 7'10" x 9'8".

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

A whimsical early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a peaceful garden landscape depicting a flowering tree branch with a lantern hanging over the corner of a pond with blossomin...

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'-2" X 4'-3"

Antique Chinese - Peking rugs, size: 8' 0'' x 9' 7''.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 3'4'' x 6' - 102 x 183 )

An antique Peking rug originating from China circa 1920-1930. Hand-knotted wool, the 8x9 rug exhibits exemplary Chinese Deco sensibilities with a pervasive p...

A vintage Tibetan rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 6" x 16' 1".

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 13'8" x23'2".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 9" Chinese Rugs & Carpet: 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...

Enchanting floral design early 20th century Chinese Art Deco carpet in an odd size wide gallery room size format. Measures: 7'6'' x 14'5''.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 11" x 6' 0".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'6'' - 270 x 350 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco, measures: 9'2" x 11'6".

Main Hall Carpet Ningxia North Central China First Half of the 18th century Measures: 12'8" x 13'4" - 386 x 406 cm Structural Analysis Warp: cotton, white, natural, Z-4-S, hand-spun...

This vintage 9×13 Art Deco needlepoint is one of a limited collection that recaptures the works of artist Tim Van Campen. Handmade in all wool circa 1980-1990, it hails from the work...

Antique Chinese Peking wool rug Chinese, c. 1890 Width 268cm, depth 185cm This find blue-field carpet is from Peking, China, and was created durin...

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'8" - 280 x 355 cm )

77631 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco ...

This vintage 9×13 Art Deco needlepoint is one of a limited collection that recaptures the works of artist Tim Van Campen. Handmade in all wool circa 1980-1990, it hails from the work...

Taking months or even years to create, this gorgeous carpet was painstakingly crafted by tying pieces of vegetable-dyed wool around a cotton warp in thousands upon thousands of indiv...

Late 19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery ( 5'10" x 9' - 177 x 274 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 9'0"x12'4".

Traditional Handwoven Luxury Semi Antique Navy / Red Fine Sumak Rug

Pretty mid century Chinese Beijing rug with nice Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experienc...

This rug from the early part of the 20th century is made from naturally dyed wool from the highlands of Tibet. Wangden is the name of the valley in Tibet where these rugs originate f...

77524, antique Chinese Peking rug with Art Deco style inspired by Walter Nichols. With Jazz Age vibes and Art Deco style, this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a...

This unusually-shaped carpet is known as a "makden" and was originally used by a nomadic traveler as an artful covering for his horse. Placed between the saddle and the horse, the makden cushioned the rigid saddle and kept the horse warm in cold climates. Most under-saddle carpets...

A beautiful pair of brown antique Dragon Chinese runners, country of origin / rug type: antique Chinese Rugs, date circa 1900 - Size: 2 ft. 8 in x...

An 8x8 ode to the celebrated 18th-Century Aubusson tapestry flat weave style from Rug & Kilim’s European Collection. Handwoven in wool, this neocla...

A beautiful contemporary modernized Persian design hand knotted using finest wool and silk in 8 x 10 ft By Djoharian Design. Modern desiger rug in style of a Persian Heriz in a new...

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 3' 1'' x 6' 0''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 12' x 17'6'' - 365 x 535 )

Small Scatter square size gold antique Chinese rug, country of origin: China, circa early 19th century. Size: 2 ft 1 in x 2 ft 6 in (0.63 m x 0.76 m).

This unusually-shaped carpet is known as a "makden" and was originally used by a nomadic traveler as an artful covering for his horse. Placed between the saddle and the horse, the makden cushioned the rigid saddle and kept the horse warm in cold climates. Most under-saddle carpets include two to four holes near the center, through which the girth straps of the saddle were threaded. Dated to the late 19th century, this Tibetan saddle carpet...

Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 8'0" x 9'6".