Early 20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Beautiful Antique Turkish Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a light brown color field. This Khotan has multicolor accents in a gorgeous all-over medallion floral motif. This runne...

An early 20th century Central Asian Khotan rug with an unusual floral and geometric pattern in a crimson background surrounded by multiple complementary borders. Measures: 4'5" x ...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 4'0" x 18'4".

Beautiful vintage Art Deco Chinese hand knotted wool rug with a red field. This Art Deco rug has multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over floral Chinese design. This rug measure...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 280 x 358 )

78422 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'00 x 11'02. Bathed in the tranquil hues of dusk and flame, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug evokes the serene elegance of a bygo...

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a buff-brown and shaded aubergine-purple field with an overall delicate shaded terracotta-pink pomegranate vine, in a broad cloud motif bo...

Beautiful Antique Turkish Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a tan field. This Khotan has gray, brown, and blue accents in a gorgeous all-over medallion floral motif design. This r...

A gorgeous early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful cranberry central field surrounded by a wide gray border. A vase potted with peonies and other flowering branches ...

A rare early 20th century oval Art Deco rug with a thin indigo border surrounding a fuchsia field covered in multi-colored lotus blossoms springing from a pond.

Pair of Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 3' 1" x 8' 10"

Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 9' x 11' 9"

Chinese Art Deco 9' 0"x10' 3"

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...

Chinese Art Deco, Size: 8' 11" x11' 2"

Antique Chinese - Horse cover, Size: 1'10"x4'2".

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 9'2" x 11'8".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 9' x 11' 4"

The city of Khotan, located in the oasis of the same name in the territory of East Turkestan, has always been a prosperous place, favored both by the fertility of the soil, which all...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 4'' -270 x 345 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 13' x 15'6" - 395 x 475 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'2" x 9'10" - 208 x 300 )

An antique Chinese Peking large room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 10" x 15' 2".

Antique Peking Rug 9'0" x 11'7''. The Chinese carpets from the 19th century onward, in traditional patterns, often blue-and-white, in room sizes, scatters, and runners. A few pictori...

This antique, circa 1900, Chinese Peking rug features a field with an overall design of vertical rows of indigo-blue stepped lozenges each containing an ivory panel with a central li...

Beautiful antique Chinese Peking rug, hand knotted wool with a blue field, and beige accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese art design. This rug measures: 7'8" x 9'5".

Antique Art Deco Chinese peking Rug.4' x 6'9" Beautiful scatter Size Antique Ivory and Blue Chinese Rug, Antique Chinese Rug, Circa Date: 1910 this exquisite masterpiece uses relat...

This traditional hand-woven Samarkand Khotan rug has central field with blue, terracotta-red and light shaded green lozenge bands each containing polychrome flowerheads, the shaded b...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 2 5'' x 4'3'' - 74 x 130 )

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'6" - 270 x 350 cm )

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

78174 Distressed Antique Chinese Peking rug, 08'08 x 11'00. Effortless beauty and understated elegance, this hand-knotted wool distressed antique Peking rug beautifully embodies rust...

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 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...

1920s Chinese Carpet, Size: 11' x18'

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 10'0".

Antique Chinese Samarkand Rug Size: 11'7" × 17'7" (353 × 535 cm) This magnificent 1920s Chinese rug is a brilliant testament to the stylistic convergence of East Asian tradition and ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'3" - 266 x 343 )

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a goldenrod field, brick red frame, and multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This r...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' x 5'10'' - 122 x 178 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'6" x 11'4" - 260 x 345 )

The old gold field shows a round, composite floral medallion, closely supported by vases, cloud bands, and bonsai trees, within triangular dragon fret and flower corners. Straw main...

Originating from China in 1900, this antique hand knotted Peking rug embraces iconic elements of early Chinese Art Deco patterns with a distinguished series of symbols among its kind...

Tibetan Meditation Mat, early 20th century, cream with pink and blue floral patterns.1' 7" L x 1' 10" W. Provenance: From the Upper East Side Apartment of a Former Ambassador.

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco runner, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, tan frame in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 2'6" x 4'10". ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco runner, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, tan frame and multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug m...

Antique handmade Peking/ Art Deco Chinese carpet, c-1910's 9' x 11'4", Blue background color and floral design and Chinese motive patterns. This rug is in excellent condition and it ...

An antique East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 9' 6" x 14' 2".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3' x 5' - 91 x 152)

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a Tan field. This Khotan rug has blue and brown accents in an all-over geometric floral design. This rug measures 4'10" x 6'10...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug 11' 5''x14' 3'' Ivory background

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 8' - 152 x 244 )

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 11'8" x 19'8".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'1'' x 11'8'' - 277 x 356 )

Chinese Art Deco Carpet from 1920s with European Deco influences ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 14'6" - 305 x 442 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5' x 7' 10" - 150 x 240 cm )

The warm ecru field presents a widely dispersed, symmetric layout of butterflies and small floral sprays, with deep, triangular vine arabesque corners anchored by petal peonies. Ecr...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'3" x 11'8" - 282 x 355 )