East Asian Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 8'9" x 11'4".

Early 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Pillar Carpet ( 3'4" x 8'8" - 102 x 264 )

Vintage Chinese Silk Rug ( 4' x 6' 3" - 122 x 190 cm )

This impressive Chinese Peking rug, measuring a substantial 455 × 355 cm (14' 11" × 11' 7"), is a stunning example of early 20th-century rug-making from Beijing (formerly known as Pe...

This piece is a floral diamond design needle point Chinese rug. The base color and border colors are both green in different tones. The size is 5 feet wide by 9 feet tall. This is a ...

Vintage Chinese Art Deco area rug, a rare and refined piece that effortlessly merges cultural symbolism with timeless elegance. Designed for discerning collectors and connoisseurs of...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6'' - 275 x 350 )

An antique Chinese Art Deco oriental rug, size 4'0 x 2'0, circa 1920. This lovely hand-knotted antique carpet features various traditional Chine...

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 4'10" x 5'6" - 147 x 168 )

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 12'6" x 13'4".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 6' x 11' 8" - 183 x 355 )

Antique Chinese Silk rug, size: 5'6" x 7'9".

Step into a world of rare elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Runner, a true marvel from the 1920s that carries the allure of a bygone era. Crafted with precision in China, this run...

Add a touch of Oriental elegance to your space with this stunning vintage Chinese Nichols rug, measuring 300 × 154 cm. It's worth mentioning that the design of the rug is inspired b...

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Carpets (4'4'' x 6'1'' - 132 x 185 )

This beautifully handwoven antique Art Deco area rug was constructed in the 1890s in China with fine, hand-spun wool. The design is symmetrical and features unique medallions and mot...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 8'' - 275 x 355 cm )

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Gallery Carpet (5'8" x 16'6" - 173 x 473 cm)

1930s N Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the late 19th century. Measures: 6' 7" x 11' 4".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 6' x 8'9" - 183 x 267 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9'x 11' 6"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'10" - 280 x 360 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 9" 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 accent rug, in an oblong oval shape, handmade during the mid-20th century with a floral pattern over a magenta-red field and goldenrod yellow border. Me...

Handwoven in wool, this 3x10 Kilim runner is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: Ins...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with fuchsia color measuring 9'10" x 13'6"

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 6'4" x 8'6".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Runner Carpet 2' 8"x 11' 6"

A modern Tibetan rug from the 21st century.

An antique East Turkestan Khotan 2' x 3' scatter/throw rug handmade during the early 20th century in shades of coral and grey.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10' x 12'4" - 305 x 375 )

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

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 8'9" x 11'6".

This elegant Peking Rug, dating to circa 1940, showcases the classic craftsmanship and refined aesthetics of Chinese textile art. Measuring 275cm x 185cm, the rug’s striking palette...

Antique Chinese - Peking Rug, Size: 6'2"x8'8"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 2" x 3' 9" - 66 x 114 cm )

Handwoven in wool, this 6x9 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug en...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet (9'10" x 13'6" - 300 x 410 )

A brilliant mid-20th century Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a central floral medallion with lotus flowers, bamboo leaves, and flowering prunus blossoms, surrounded by more styliz...

This traditional hand-woven Chinese rug has a muted beige field of sparse flowering vines, pagoda icons, and geometric wreaths, enclosing a delicate floral rounded medallion, with sc...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Baotou Carpet 10'x 12' 3"

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan small gallery rug handmade during the early 20th century with a pictorial vase design over a red field. Measures: 4' 5...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Carpet ( 4'1'' x 6'2" - 125 x 188 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 14' - 305 x 427 )

Rug Number 31405 Size 4' 3" X 6' 10" Design Peking Collection Antique/Vintage Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin China Age Antique

1930's Central Asian Khotan Carpet ( 8'6" x 17'3" - 259 x 525 cm )

Hand knotted 9x12 wool geometric rug.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' x 6'9" - 122 x 206 )

Two golden yellow moons rise diagonally over the borderless rose ground and are ensnared by paeony and other colorful floral vinery. Other detail shades of pink and rose support the ...

Beautiful hand-knotted small Chinese Art Deco rug. The small square size Chinese rug has a single flower design in the center set on a tan color background with designs in plum, nav...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 6' x 8'8" - 183 x 265 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'8" x 10'8" - 265 x 325 )

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan gallery rug handmade during the early 20th century with a predominately light brown neutral field. Measures: 5' 0" x 9' 4"

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 6'8" x4'0"