20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8' 'x 11'6'' - 265 x 350 )

Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most of the antique rug productions, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since they were mostly sheltered from European and We...

Not all Art Deco Chinese carpets are restrained or Minimalist. Nine colorful dragons fiercely writhe on a brisk red field among flaming pearls and cloud k...

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in light burgundy and green color. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original good condition. -condition: original good, ...

The tan field shows a version of the characteristic pomegranate tree and vase pattern, with confronting single trees whose upturned branches dangle textured pomegranate fruit. Centr...

The black four lobed field barely contains an explosively flowering, branching major motif. The black palmette and arabesque corners, and the ivory paeony palmette and leafy arabesqu...

A folksy early 20th century Chinese Peking rug featuring eight irregular shaped elemental motifs on a midnight blue colored ground, circa 1930. Measures: 2'3" x 4'4".

Antique Chinese, Art Deco rug. Size: 6'2" x 8'10".

Early 20th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Dragon Carpet ( 7'2" x 9' - 218 x 274 )

PRESENTING a BEAUTIFUL and RARE Medium sized Helen Fette Rectangular Oriental Rug from the Art Deco Era. Beautifully detailed and HIGH QUALITY wool weave. Circa 1925. Rectangular ...

1930s Chinese Silk Carpet with Foo Dog Design ( 4' x 7' - 122 x 213 )

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

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug in bright orange color. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original condition, it has some signs of age. -Condition: origial, some si...

Vintage handmade Tibetan Modern woollen rug with silk highlights in original good condition. It is from the end of 20th century made in Nepal. -condi...

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in original condition. The rug made in night blue shade for the border with oval central area in a grey shade. It is floral and decorated with large flowers in...

Antique Khotan Samarkand rug, 6'3 x 12'3. This wonderful piece has a lovely ivory field filled with a floral design. The rug has a low all-over pile that just adds to the patina and ...

This hand-knotted wool rug showcases Art Deco style and features a goldenrod field complemented by a designed frame. The traditional Chinese floral design has stunning multi-colored ...

A Turkish runner with predominant accents in red, orange, and ivory from the mid-20th century measures: 2'8" x 10'9"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 17'2" - 355 x 523 )

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a chocolate-brown field with a central column of bold brick-red pomegranate vine issuing angular tendrils with further similar pomegranate...

Pillow made from a vintage Turkish rug derived from an antique Khotan rug with zipper closure included. Love the color combination and its a lumbar size. Measures: 16" x 23'.

A one of a kind Turkish rug influenced by 19th century east Turkmenistan Khotan rugs. 3 round medallions on a rose ground, accents in brown, green, brown and gray accents, circa mid...

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...

An early 20th century Khotan rug in camels, ivory and brown. 5'7'' x 10'4''

Vintage 1980s Chinese Art Deco Dragon Carpet ( 9' x 12'2" -275 x 365 )

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a steel-gray field with a coral-red vase at each end issuing dusty-pink pomegranate and angular floral and serrated leaf vine, enclosed wi...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 6'' x 4' 5'' - 76 x 134 cm )

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

An eclectic midcentury Turkish deco rug. Predominantly in shaded of orange and purple-blue and muave accents Measures: 7' x 10'2".

Handmade vintage Tibetan woollen runner from Nepal with silk highlights. It is from the end of 20th century in original good condition. - Condition: original good, - circa 1980...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3' x 5' 10'' - 92 x 178 cm )

A simple but chic early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with two large floral clusters in opposite corners, one with chrysanthemums and the other with peonies, and surrounded by a ...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 8'10" x 11'6".

A vintage East Turkestan Samarkhand Gallery rug in icy lavender and pink tones. 6' x 12''

Oval Art Deco Chinese rug in original condition. Beautiful green color of the field combines together with cream beige border. The rug is in floral design, border is covered with red...

The light green field has a serpentine plain center delimited by eight colorful peony and stem sprays passing from the paler border into the field. Flowers are contoured in blues, ru...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with ivory color Measures: 9'2" x 11'10".

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 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...

?78081 Distressed Antique Chinese Peking rug with Minimalist Style 12'01 x 19'01. ??With its effortless beauty and rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted wool distressed antique Chine...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug in original condition, it has full pile but a stain on the fringes. It is from the beginning of 20th century.    

1920s Chinese BaoTou Rug ( 2'2'' X 4'3" - 66 x 130 cm )

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

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a field with a pair of linked stepped lozenges with central buff-brown lozenges surrounded by an ivory and terracotta lozenges with flower...

The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...

An antique Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 1" x 14' 10"

Handmade vintage Uzbek Bukhara runner in original condition, it has some age wear. The rug made in soft wool in the middle of 20th century. -condition: original, some signs of ag...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Carpet ( 9' x 12'2" - 275 x 370 cm )

76664 Vintage Aubusson Garden Chinese Area Rug with Baroque Floral Chintz Style 09'02 x 12'00. Drawing inspiration from Mario Buatta and Chintz style, t...

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'1'' x 11'9'' - 277 x 358 )

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug in fuchsia color and with all-over design. The rug is from 1930s, in original good condition.  

Wonderful large Chinese Beijing Art Deco rug with nice Chinese design and light colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

A finely woven Chinese carpet of the type ascribed to the best workshops in Beijing distinguished by an oval format and characterized by a tone-on-tone leaf pattern in off beige-gold...

Beautiful oval Art Deco Chinese rug in pink, beige, sky blue and black shade. Motive on this rug is very decorative in Chinese traditional ornaments of different colors. It look like...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 8'10" x 11'4" - 270 x 345 )

This hand-loomed Tibetan wool blanket is a rare vintage piece. Its thick pile would have been used for sleeping on or under during the cold nights in the Himalayas. In Tibet, it woul...

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10' x 13'6" - 305 x 412 )  

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 9'3" x 11'6".

This luxurious Peking Chinese antique wool rug boasts a blue field decorated with a designed frame and golden, peach, and black accents in a beautiful all-over Chinese floral pattern...