East Asian Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 8' 0'' x9' 8''.

Antique Chinese Rug, Size: 10'3" x13'9".

This borderless BaoTou features a spotted deer gazing at a phoenix flying above. An enormous tree grows to the left and ranges of wavy 3-dimensional mountains frame the deer. Multi...

This early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 3' 1" x 5' 0", showcases a vibrant composition rooted in Central Asian tradition. The brick-red field is densely populate...

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

Antique Tibetan Khaden rug featuring two beautiful dragons and a wild assortment of pastel colored clouds over a neutral tan background. This carpet features all vegetable dyes and i...

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a Tan color field. This Khotan rug has brown, gray, and peach accents in a geometric multi-medallion design. This rug measures...

In the 1860s an organized carpet industry was established under imperial patronage in Peking. These carpets tended to have tighter and finer weaves than their Ningxia counterparts, o...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'8'' - 183 x 265 )

A Chinese silk pictorial rug. On a border-less burgundy red ground, 11 Immortals stand on clouds .Each immortal has its own unique colorful outfit o...

78614 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. Emulating maximalist style with opulent detail work and lavish texture, this antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a captivating vision ...

This 10x14 ode to Tudor flat weaves is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s classic-style European collection. Handwoven in wool. Further on the Design: This piece is inspired by Armor...

A captivating 8x9 needlepoint entry making way to Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection. Nestled in contemporary vision, this beauty carries an intricate floral pattern all over t...

A majestic 6x9 needlepoint piece joining Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection. The rug features pictorial representations of animal symbols in the centre surrounded by a dense fl...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 2'6'' x 8'10'' - 76 x 269 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 European pictorial tapestry in beige/brown, green and pink is a new piece inspired by antique European tapestries. On the design: Inspired by antiq...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 European needlepoint rug originating from China, features floral designs that speak to Bessarabian and Aubusson sensibilities along with other transiti...

This 9x12 flatweave from the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim is a contemporary take on 18th century Aubusson rugs and tapestries. Handwoven in fine quality wool, this piece is...

Handwoven in wool, this 9x13 Aubusson flatweave rug draws on a particularly rare design for this aesthetic known for its teeming designs—an open field design in particular, with a mi...

This 9x12 kilim rug from our European selections marks a contemporary take on 18th century Aubusson tapestry flatweaves. Handwoven in fine quality wool, this piece is from the earlie...

This beige needlepoint Aubusson rug is a high-quality item, getting most of the attention in the rug store by clients because of the elegant c...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 5' 2" x 7' 10", features an elegant oval shape with a delicate and finely detailed floral design. The central composition showca...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 14'2" x 19'9" - 432 x 602 )

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...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design. Measures: 9' 6" x 12' 1".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' X 13' 9" - 355 X 420 )

Collectible and rare Tibetan saddle cover featuring two charming tigers surrounded by a border of beautiful dragons. This handmade saddle was prob...

Vintage Art Deco Rug 8x11 Dragon Heads Bats Chinese Rug Blue 8'3" x 11' 251cmx335cm Circa 1960 "This is a very beautiful vintage Art Deco rug. This piece has incredible des...

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...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'4" x 12'3" - 284 x 373 )

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century Chinese Peking rug with a pictorial design in brown Size: 3'3'' x 5'2''.

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Chinese rug has a brown frame, multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 298 )

I don’t know of any other East Turkestan rug with only two niches, displayed here in a sort of yin yang. The outstanding palette, consisting of three shades of red, blue and green, i...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 7x8 antique khotan rug originating from 1910-1920 in East Turkestan is a particularly special find among Khotan rugs of this or any period. On the Desi...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 7".

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' 3" x 12'

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue color field. This piece has a purple frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design....

Nice mid century Chinese rug with beautiful Chinese design and nice colours with white, pink, blue, green and brown, entirely hand made by han...

Hand knotted in a fine blend of wool and silk, an 8x10 piece from Rug & Kilim’s European Collection. This “Queen Mary” selection is inspired by Tudor rug styles with an all over flor...

This 10x14 ode to 18th Century Aubusson flat weaves is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s European collection. Handwoven in wool. Further on the Design: This piece is inspired neocla...

Handwoven in wool, this 9x10 European flatweave rug has been inspired by 18th century English Tudor rugs and tapestries. The design features floral patterns in green, red, gold and t...

This 6x9 rug is an exciting new addition to the Modern Classics Collection by Rug & Kilim. Hand-knotted in wool, its design draws inspiration from rare antique Agra rug designs with ...

Handwoven in wool, this 8x10 Aubusson flatweave rug in rich beige/brown features colorful floral botanical patterns in present pink and cream tones. On the Design: This design ha...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'3'' - 275 x 343 )

These mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco pair rug, measuring 2' 5" x 4' 7" - 2' 5" x 4' 7", features a refined and elegant bamboo motif set against a soft beige field. Delicately ren...

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

Originating from China, circa 1920-1930, this 5x8 antique Chinese Art Deco Peking rug, hand-knotted in wool, features regal floral patterns and borders on a blue field. On the Desi...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a light purple field, orange, green, red , yellow and pu...

A beautiful antique Dragon Peking Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a dark blue field and multi-color accents all-over traditional Chinese dragon design. This rug measures 9'10"...

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

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size?: 9'0" x 11'10" Navy background.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 0" x 13' 6".

The fuschia-rose borderless field displays a roughly oval bottom to top medallion of flowers and tendrils, and zig-zagging broken basketwork. In tones of mauve, yellow, green and tea...

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Throne Back Dragon Rug 2' 3" x 2' 3" - 68 x 68

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 265 x 345 )

From Rug & Kilim’s European collection, an 8x10 Tudor style flatweave with medallions & pictorial patterns in regal black, gold & off white. Handwoven in wool, a fine weave with coar...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 11'10" x 17'0".