Asian Chinese and East Asian Rugs

The most recognizable rugs from the 1920s and 1930s are Chinese Rugs made by Walter Nichols. These Nichols rugs, as they came to be known, were primarily made during the Art Deco mov...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo background surrounded by a wide fuchsia border, and overlaid with wispy prunus blossoms and peonies, butterflies, and a garden...

Handsome vintage wool 8’8” x 11’4.5” handmade Chinese Art Deco rug in a gorgeous soft taupe ground with a cranberry or magenta border and jewel tone Art...

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: This rug re...

Gold Antique Art Deco Rug Antique Chinese Rug Walter Nichols Black 4x7 122x203cm Circa 1920 "Beautiful antique Art Deco rug in a rare, gold and black colorway along with magnific...

Copper Brown, Antique Chinese Art Deco, Full Pile, Clean and Soft, Sides and Ends Professionally Secured, 100% Wool, Hand Knotted, Oriental Rug Primary materials: Wool Latex: No Pile...

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

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4' 2" x 6' 10", features a rich and sophisticated design with a striking interplay of color and form. The deep blue field is ado...

An early 20th-century Chinese run in the palest blue color Measures: 2'11'' x 5'.

78203 Vintage Tibetan Odegard Rug, 08'03 x 10'04. This hand-knotted wool vintage Tibetan Odegard rug is a striking example of minimalist elegance, where mo...

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 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 styl...

This handwoven Chinese Deco rug has shaded shapes of soft blue, rust, sage and coral overlaid by an unexpected violet, orange, and yellow ge...

Antique Dragon rug Chinese Peking Khotan SilkTapestry Brown 4'3" x 6'3" 130cmx191cm Circa 1880 "This incredible rare Antique piece is a fine ...

This Turkish Art Deco wool rug boasts a striking beige backdrop with black, yellow, gray, and pink accents and a captivating pictorial representation of a tiger. This rug measures 5...

Antique Circa 1923 Burgundy Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 9' X 11'6. As the term implies, true Chinese Deco carpets were woven in a short...

An early 20th century Chinese pictorial throw-size rug Measures: 2'8' x 5'.

Chinese Peking Rug Blue – 355 × 276 cm This magnificent Chinese Peking rug showcases a classic blend of imperial elegance and symbolism. Measuring 355 × 276 cm , the rug features a r...

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 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...

Beautiful oversize antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a Goldenrod field, navy -blue frame in an all-over classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures 12' x ...

A three medallion arrangement with two blue roundels flanking a blue, nested ‘moon’ medallion. The straw field shows secondary rosettes and flowers around the major trio. ‘Yun-tsao Tou’ border of clouds and rain. From Eliko Rug Gallery...

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

Delicate flowers and Eastern motifs are scattered throughout Mountain Blossom's vibrant composition. This colorful Asian-inspired rug is cheerful and sophisticated for many interior ...

This early 20th century Chinese Peking Art Deco rug, measuring 2' 11" x 5' 8", presents a captivating pastoral scene woven with charm and artistry. The central field depicts a tranqu...

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 th...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug in original condition. The rug is in bright orange color. Decorative floral design in different shades or yellow, green and purple. The condition is orig...

This hand-knotted wool Antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a floral design with multicolored hues on a purple background and a light purple frame. This rug measures 10'2" x 13'5".  

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...

Vintage Chinese Baotou Prayer Rug S2601

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with an all-over celadon green field overlaid with multi-colored peonies, chrysanthemum, lotus, and cherry blossoms, all auspiciou...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 10' x 15'5"

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...

Mid-Century Beijing silk carpet, 20th century China Intact and in good condition, 38 cm x 76 cm

Stunning circa 1930's Chinese pictorial rug with a large deer and bird on a deep blue ground Measures: 2'5" x 4'6".

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a deep cranberry colored background surrounded by a black border, and myriad auspicious ...

This Tiger rug embodies a traditional and versatile pattern, both contemporary and timelessly classic. Shown in black and natural tan, colored with vegetable dyes. Joseph Carini was inspired by the patterns on the tiger pelt and traditional Tibetan animal prints on rugs...

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...

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...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Hand-knotted wool. Bold red background with Chinese floral design in multicolor hues. This rug measures 9'8" x 13'3".  

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...

Beautiful mid century Chinese beijing Art Deco design rug with beautiful design and nice colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotto...

79119 Antique Red Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'10 x 09'01. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a radiant example of 20th-century artistry, blending the bold aesthetics...

Rare square little Chinese Ningxia carpet, simple and elegant for everywhere. the blue color has a special long preparation procedure and it's used for important carpets. ref. nr. 9...

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4'0" x 6'11", features a striking oval composition that captures the elegance and vibrancy characteristic of the era. The soft l...

30973 Modern Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 08'01 x 10'11. Emanating maximalism with incredible detail and lavish texture, this Chinese Art Deco st...

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...

78989 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 09'00 x 11'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug embodies the elegance and restrained beauty characteristic of early 2...

An incredible early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a fucshia ground overlaid with multi-colored flowers and scrolling vines, all woven in pinks, golds, greens, violets, and i...

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.

Early 19th Century Antique Dragon Design Chinese Rug 11'9'' X 7'3'', Handmade and Hand-knotted with dragon design Y & B B

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...

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...

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Carpet, Size: 9'x 11' 6"

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

Mid-20th century with Oval Medallion Chinese yellow, lilac and green decorative area rug Size: 13'10" × 20'2" (421 × 614 cm). This circa 1930 vintage Chinese deco rug features a str...

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...

Chinese Sinkiang Geometric Rug, Khotan Xinjiang Province (East Turkestan). A carpet of dyed wool pile on a cotton foundation, a mixed berry palette in hues of purple, salmon, red, an...