Mid-20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Pretty mid century Turkish Hereke rug with a design of Chinese rugs and beautiful colors with blue field, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨...

This vintage Chinese pictorial area rug captures a striking and dynamic moment: a horseback rider mid-action, skillfully swinging a rope loop to capture a wild horse in motion. The s...

78123 Vintage Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style 04'00 x 06'08. With its effortless beauty and timeless Chinoiserie style, this hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese Peking rug wi...

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

This magnificent Chinese carpet knotted in the last century with silk and metal thread on a cotton warp and weft measuring 176x123 cm, is designed with the dual possibility of being ...

An asymmetric array of 4 flowering sprays ornaments the open scarlet field of this 1920s Art Deco rug with a tonally matching border of four Shou (g...

1940s Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 8' x 10' - 245 x 305 )

77587, vintage Chinese Baotou Vase Pictorial rug with Chinese Chippendale style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese Baotou pictorial rug features an abrashed tan field showcasing different types of cloisonné vases sprouting with stylized florals resting on pedestals. The main border, which features repeated motifs of diamonds containing stylized Ruyi clouds with rosette centers, echoes the balance of geometric forms and floral touches used throughout the piece. It would be perfect for a small space, kitchen, reading nook, master bathroom, grand foyer, designer entry, study, studio, den, walk-in closet, stair landing, alcove, mudroom, entryway, bedroom, private library, private chambers, living room, front room, wine cellar, conservatory, drawing room, trophy room, game room, music room, listening room, or hotel lobby. It would also make a lovely accent next to a buffet in a dining room or behind the sofa table in the living room. Iconic in its styling, this antique Chinese Baotou rug...

In this listing you will find a beautiful, very elegant Chinese Art Deco floral rug. The rug is hand-knotted, silk on silk base. Made in China in 1...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 10".

:: Roundel center medallion defined by densely ornamented scrolling vines atop a wide open field and corner spandrel overlays and main border reciprocating the design of the main med...

A sweet early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a large vase in one corner, potted with multi-colored peonies, chrystanthemums, and cherry blossoms, and all set against a gold b...

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

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 1" x 5' 4".

Vintage Japanese Rug Size: 9'1" × 11'8" (276 × 355 cm) The Vintage Japanese Rug from Doris Leslie Blau is a captivating example of mid-20th-century Japanese textile artistry. This ha...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 2" x 8' 9"

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'10" x 9'8" - 239 x 295 )

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

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

Handmade Vintage Art Deco floral Chinese Rug, 2'11" x 4'10", c-1950's, in green color background with floral traditional design on each corner of the rug. The rug is in excellnt cond...

A unique Art Deco carpet distinguished by a sparse and subtle floral tone-on-tone pattern in shades of garnet and amaranth. Rugs of this type were commissioned by Nichols & Co. in Ti...

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...

:: Roundel center medallion defined by loosely ornamented floral cross-sections and vines atop a covered field of eucalyptus leaves, floral bouquets, and minor roundel medallions. Co...

A vintage Chinese Peking accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cerulean blue field, cream medallion, border, and corner spandrels, and dark blue guard...

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

A whimsical early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a peaceful garden landscape depicting a flowering tree branch with a lantern hanging over the corner of a pond with blossomin...

:: Roundel center medallion defined by densely ornamented scrolling vines atop a wide open field and corner spandrel overlays reciprocating the design of the main medallion. Colors a...

A vintage Persian Mashad carpet from the mid-20th century featuring a Chinese pictorial design of a dragon.

Copper Brown, Antique Chinese Art Deco, Full Pile, Clean and Soft, Sides and Ends Professionally Secured, 100% Wool, Hand Knotted, Oriental Rug Primary materials: Wool Latex: No Pile...

Deep red field Chinese Deco Nichols rug. Bright colored floral design in two corners. One or two small discolorations (shown) but truly excellent overall c...

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 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...

Mid-20th Century Chinese Deco Handmade Wool Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 10'0" × 13'10" (304 × 421 cm) This vintage Chinese Art Deco rug, circa 1945, exemplifies the bold aesthetic of...

A pair of early 20th century Chinese Art Deco oval rugs, each with a flowering cherry blossom tree growing from within a scholar's rock in each corne...

Taking months or even years to create, this gorgeous hand-knotted carpet was painstakingly crafted by tying pieces of vegetable-dyed wool around a cotton warp in thousands upon thous...

Matching Pair of Chinese Nichols Oriental Wool Rug Runners Circa 1950 Measure - 110" x 28" Catalogue Note: Ask about DISCOUNTED DELIVERY RATES available to most regions within ...

This floor mat once occupied a tribal long house of the Dayak Tribe of Borneo. It is made from woven dyed and natural coloured rattan fibres & features tri...

1930's Central Asian Khotan Carpet ( 8'8" x 17'4" - 264 x 528 cm )

:: Open field with diagonally opposing sprawling ornate foliage and long stemmed vines reciprocating each other. Super soft and blanket-like feel with plush pile. Colors and shades include: Pale dusty rose, ivory, beige, mint green, pistachio green, sand, sky blue, coffee brown, pale gold, and more. Condition notes: Like-new, original full pile height even across. Original side cord selvages intact. Fully secured sides and ends. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Japanese Art...

Antique Chinese Silk Rug, Measures: 3' 5''x 5' 7''.

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 13'8" - 297 x 417 cm )

1930s handwoven Chinese Deco rug with a vibrant palette of greens, purples, and blues arranged in a design of florals and vines set against ...

1920s Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 2'1" x 8'4" - 64 x 255 cm )

A vintage silk Chinese carpet from the mid-20th century.

2nd Quarter of 20th Century Chinese Horse Cover ( 2' 6" x 4' 6" - 76 x 137 cm)

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 8'8" x 14'8".

:: Open field with opposing end sprawling ornate foliage and long stemmed vines diagonally reciprocating each other. Super soft, and blanket-like feel with plush pile. Colors and shades include: Dusty rose, teal, powder blue, terracotta, jade green and more. Condition notes: Like-new, original full pile height even across. Original side cord selvages intact. Fully secured sides and ends. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Japanese Art Deco design carpet made in Japan circa 1950...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'8" x 9'5" - 234 x 287 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 2'4" x 11'0".

This border-less trompe l’oeil rug displays a soft red scroll rolled back in one corner to revel a scroll patterned underside and an ivory triangle beneath. The rug has a three dimen...

In the 1930s, Shanghai, China was swept up in the Art Deco design movement. Design, architecture, art, fashion, and furniture were all influenced by this modern movement that permeated every part of life in the bustling, vibrant city. Taking months or even years to create, this Chinese Art Deco area...

Sakiori is a traditional Japanese painstaking technique of rag weaving utilizing strips of salvages kimono, futon covers and other fabric. Nothing goes to waste. ] This incredible r...

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

Mid 20th Century American Hooked Rug ( 3'9" x 6'3" - 114 x 191 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with multi-color and 6' 2" x 6' 2" size.

Six exploding floral bouquets are positioned on islands of dark blue or green on the deep red virtually border less field. Two butterflies flutter about. There is a distinctly three-...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures 8'6"x 9'0".

This exquisite pair of Chinese Art Deco pictorial rugs from the mid-1900s showcases timeless artistry and elegance. Woven with a wool pile on a silk foundation, these pieces feature a classic vase motif, each vase filled with delicate tree flowers rendered in soft tones of brown, pale orange, and purple. Set against a serene pale green background, the design has a graceful and balanced composition that reflects the refined aesthetic of Chinese Art Deco style. Their slender dimensions and excellent condition make them perfect for wall display as decorative textile art, adding a touch of cultural sophistication to any space. Whether displayed as a pair or individually, these partial silk rugs offer a unique blend of luxury materials, subtle color, and symbolic design—ideal for collectors, designers, or anyone with an appreciation for fine Asian decorative arts. Dimensions: 2’ 1” x 3’ 1” Date of Manufacture: 3rd Quarter of the 1900s Place of Origin: China Material: Wool pile on a silk foundation Condition: Excellent The Persian Knot Gallery, SKU 1964 Chinese Silk Rugs, Silk Pictorial Rugs, Chinese Pictorial Rugs, Vase Design Rugs, Vase Design Chinese Rugs, Art Deco Chinese, Chinese Art Deco, Art Deco Nichols Rugs, Vintage Art Deco Rugs, Rugs Art Deco, Art Deco Nichols, , Nichols Deco Rugs, Chinese Art Deco Nichols, Nichols Art Deco Carpet...