20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Here a series of golden yellow octagonal motifs, obtained from the stylisation of the dragon element, are arranged in an orderly manner against a rare lacquer red...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Fuchsia color and 8'9" x 11'4" size.

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a field with soft-terracotta stepped and linked lozenges each with delicate floral motifs around a central fox-red and lilac stepped lozen...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 3'8" x 9'6" - 112 x 290 )

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

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Circular Carpet ( 12' 2" - 370 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 90 x 152 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Workshop ( 5' 9" x 16' - 175 x 488 cm )

1920s Chinese Baotou Rug ( 4' x 5'9" - 122 x 175 )

Antique Chinese, Peking rug, size: 2'0" x 4'6".

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

A stunning early 20th century Chinese Peking rug with a rich dark indigo field surrounded by a border of mirrored repeated swirl...

Chinese Art Deco Rug By Walter Nichols This exquisite Walter Nichols Chinese Art Deco rug is a stunning example of early 20th-cent...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Threads Carpet with Inscription " For Use In The Royal Aurora Hall " 4'3" x 6'3" - 130 x 191

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'8" - 188 x 264 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 10'0" x 14'6".

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 2'6" x 4'4" - 75 x 132 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'8'' - 279 x 356 )

Antique Chinese - Art Deco Rug, Size: 9' 0'' x11' 8''

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Baotou Carpet

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

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 3'2" x 5'0".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Mat ( 1'7'' x 2' - 48 x 60 )

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

Pair of Chinese Peking Carpets from 1920s ( 2' / 60 cm )

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 - 1970, this 5x8 vintage Müren Art Deco rug drawn on primitivist tribal and Scandinavian Rya styles in its big colorful l...

Antique Chinese Blue Wool Rug Size: 14'2" × 19'8" (431 × 599 cm) China is a country of ancient traditions and art. Here is a great example of Chinese handmade wool rug circa 1920. Th...

This masterfully knotted early 20th century Samarkand carpet depicts a floral pattern at its center, framed by an ornate geometric border. Sometimes referred to as khotan carpets, Samarkand rugs are all from an area in central Asia once called East Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang province, China. Hand-woven with vegetable-dyed wool, this antique carpet has a balanced composition and a beautiful, soft palette of oranges, pinks, and browns. From the collection of Frances and Gary Comer.

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 16'10'' x 17'10'' - 513 x 544 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 11'4'' - 183 x 345 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'8'' - 270 x 355 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8' x 9'6" - 244 x 290

A very finely knotted antique Chinese rug in excellent condition, distinguished by a tone-on-tone Indigo blue palette and by a geometric pattern based on an infinite repeat, honeycom...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rugs, size: 11' 0'' x 14' 0''.

Early 20 Century Chinese Baotou Rug ( 2'6" x 4'8" - 76 x 142 )

An antique East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 13' 1".

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...

A rare and unusual Tibetan rug woven with the wool yarn obtained by unravelling the so-called 'Nambu' skirts, which are typically decorated by multicolored stripes. The unravelled ya...

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...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'3".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 6'10" - 152 x 208 )

An exceptional early 20th century Central Asian Samarghand rug with a wonderful large stylized floral central medallion woven in crimson and fuchsia amidst a field of flowers and tre...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 298 )

Hand-knotted in wool, an antique 9x12 Chinese Art Deco rug joining Rug & Kilim’s repertoire of coveted 1920s masterpieces. This interpretation of the classic style enjoys a brilliant...

:: Roundel medallion in simplistic bold relief atop a covered field of trees, vines, bouquets, and butterflies in each corner inwardly directed to the main features. Inner minor bord...

This beautiful Chinese carpet from the Art Deco period is distinguished by its elegance and unusual style. The wool is shiny, silky, and spun with greater thickness than normal Chine...

1920s Chinese Baotou Saddle Cover ( 2' x 4'2" - 61 x 127 )

1920s Chinese At Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'4" - 267 x 345 )

Antique Chinese silk rug measures: 3' 2'' x 5' 2''.

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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Foo Dog Rug 2'7" x 4'2" - 79 x 127

Frank Lloyd Wright for F. Schumacher & Co. Taliesin Collection medium-pile Wool Rug. Papyrus (abstracted as lines and triangles, pale green, lavender, c...

A sweet early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with rich pink field surrounded by a wide turquoise border, and all overlaid with auspicious flowers including peonies, chrysanthemum,...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Carpet ( 2'7" x 4'2"-78 x 127)