Chinese Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A beautiful hand knotted antique Chinese Peking wool rug with a peach field and multi-color accents in all-over Chinese botanical design. This rug measures 9' x 11'9".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'10'' x 270 x 360 )

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This Chinese rug has a navy-blue frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese ...

Originating from China, this contemporary runner is hand knotted with durable, high quality wool depicting a patchwork Ghana design, featuring an array of protective hand and medalli...

An early 20th century antique Khotan rug 4'1'' x 6'10''

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

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, tan frame, and multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: ...

Beautiful large vintage Chinese rug from the mid-20th century, entirely hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation. Art Deco-inspired design featuring a red background with a medall...

A mid 20th century room size Chinese rug in blue and yellow. The wool and feel of the rug is very soft on the feet. It has a silky sheen to it a...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'10".

Exquisite Chinese Khotan Rug with Central Figurative Design and Floral Vases. There’s a decorative stool, adorned with vases of flowers in shades of pink, yellow, violet, brown, and ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 4' x 6'8'' - 122 x 203 )

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark golden orange field with a central pagoda medallion, garden pavilion...

An incredible early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a rich crimson field surrounded by a thin gold inner border and a wide dark indigo border. Overlaid across the entire field...

late 19th century east turkestan Khotan rug with cantaloupe colored ground. 4'1'' x 5'4''

Fette Chinese Carpet, c. 1930 Additional Information: Dimensions: 9'0" W x 11'9" L Origin: China Period: c. 1930 Rug ID: 23014

An authentic full pile condition mid-20th century, Chinese Art Deco Mta rug with a large floral design on a green field Measures: 2' x 2'10''.

1930s Chiense Animal Pictorial small Rug Details rug no. j3525 size 2' 7" x 4' 11" (79 x 150 cm)

Handmade vintage Indian Seraband runner in original condition, it has some age discolorations. The rug is from the end of 20th century. -condition: original, age discolorations, -c...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 279 x 358 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 11' 10" x 15'

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9' 6" - 245 x 290 cm )

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Oval Carpet ( 4' x 6'10" - 122 x 208 )

An antique Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 5".

77584 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial rug with Cranes and Deer 02'04 x 04'08. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug fe...

With a minimalist floral pattern inspired by a rare botanical design with bamboo trees in green and blue, on a beige field and gold border, this 12x15 Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-kn...

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

Mid-18th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 13'10" - 411 x 422 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'6".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 3' x 11' - 90 x 335 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 3" x 12' 8"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

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...

A minimalist one-of-a-kind vintage Chinese rug in blues. Measures: 2'3'' x 2'5''.

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 3" x 11' 8"

Golden background Chinese Art Deco, measures: 9'0" x 11'4".

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with goldenrod and green field. This Chinese rug has a red frame and multi-color accent in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese fl...

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 9'0" x 11'6".

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Carpet 3' 2" x 5' 2"

76703, vintage Persian style rug with traditional style. Opulent and whimsical, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian style rug with traditi...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 12'10" x 15'9" - 390 x 480 )

77407, distressed antique Chinese Peking rug with Traditional chinoiserie style 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Peking area rug...

77557 antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Pictorial design. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco pictorial rug features a variety of traditional Chinese motifs spread across...

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

A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".

The Older Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most other productions of Chinese goods, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since ...

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 3" 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...

Hand-knotted wool circa 1925, a 9x12 antique Chinese art deco rug - latest to join Rug & Kilim’s antique collection. On the Design: This is a rare work from the Nichols style curat...

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...

77435 antique Antique Chinese Palace rug with Persian Tabriz style. With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design elements, this ha...

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 7"

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 ...