Chinese Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A truly stunning example of early 20th-century design, this vintage hand-knotted Chinese Art Deco Nichols rug is a rare gem from the 1900s. Set against an enchanting eggplant or pale mauve field, the rug features a graceful floral and landscape motif, with blooming trees, delicate flowers, and serene pagodas woven into a peaceful country scene. A rich dark blue border frames the composition, grounding the soft elegance of the central design. The wool is exceptionally soft and luminous, with a silk-like shimmer that catches the light beautifully—enhancing the rug’s depth and richness. In truly excellent condition, this piece embodies the refined craftsmanship and aesthetic restraint that have made Chinese Art Deco rugs increasingly desirable among collectors and designers alike. With its simple yet sophisticated design and unique, harmonious color palette, this Nichols rug offers timeless beauty and charm—perfect for both traditional and modern interiors. Dimensions: 8’ 11” x 11’ 3” Date of Manufacture: 1st Quarter of the 1900s Place of Origin: China Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation Condition: Excellent The Persian Knot, SKU 1510 Art Deco Chinese, Chinese Art Deco, Art Deco Rugs, Antique Peking Rugs, Vintage Art Deco Rugs, Rugs Art Deco, Art Deco Nichols, Chinese Carpet Dragon, Nichols Deco Rugs...

77814 vintage Chinese Floral Kilim rug 04'02 x 06'03. This hand-woven wool vintage Chinese kilim rug features a color blocked field and border festoon...

Antique Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug 10x13 1920 9'9" x 12'8" 298cm x 386cm "This is a beautiful antique art deco rug with simple motifs. This piece has a great neutral colorwa...

Chinese Nichols art deco mat-size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 2'1'' x 3'8"

Discover the rich history of Antique Peking Rugs, a tradition that found its roots in China shortly after the conclusion of the First World War. During this era, Chinese rug weaving ...

"Exquisite early 20th-century Chinese rug featuring a stunning design. The centerpiece boasts a majestic dragon surrounded by four animals on a beige field, adorned with intricate bl...

This contemporary 6x9 flatweave is inspired by 18th century Tudor rugs and tapestries—from the European Collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: Handwoven in wool, this construction marks the first adaptation of this transitional rug style to a high-low texture. Its all over pattern is a grand play of florals married to that texture, with a brilliant sense of depth and movement therein. The colorway favors teal and red tones over beige, with especially present cream and ochre notes among many accents. Keen eyes will further note the fine detail and remarkable adaptation of scale to an area rug. The whole look is a fabulous modern interpretation of a botanical English classic...

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...

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, ...

Vintage Chinese Wool Rug, China 90 Line, 1990s. This is a handwoven rug made of wool pile on cotton warp, with rich cherry flowers and bamboo designs. This model is sometimes called ...

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

Late 20th century Chinese rug with Chinese design and light colors with beige, blue, green, yellow and pink, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Late 17th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: China Rugs, Circa Date: Late 17th Century – Size: 6 ft 2 in x 12 ft (1.88 m x 3.66 m) Unlike many traditional Chinese rugs...

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

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Hand-Knotted Wool Style: Chinese Art Deco Dimensions: 0.25”H x 71”W x 36”D This hand-knotted wool rug from 1920s China showcases...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 8'6" x 11'6".

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 cranberry field surrounded by a thin light indigo, wide dark indigo, and an outer thin cranberry stripe border. The field i...

This is an authentic handmade rug. It was made in China around the 1940s. The overall color pallet is ivory over. The materials are wool pile with cotton foundation. The colors are f...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 8" x 11' 8", beautifully showcases the refined aesthetic of traditional Khotan weaving. The design features an elegant compo...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

Introducing a stunning Art Nouveau design rug that seamlessly blends the elegance of early 20th-century aesthetics with a modern twist. Adorned with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 6'0" x 8'6".

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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-...

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...

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...