Mid-20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

This is a mid-20th century hand knotted Khotan rug with a beige color and all-over design. The rug measures: 4'9" x 9'2".  

The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and colored wools is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of these were sourced directly...

It is the early 1930s in Hanoi. Two French engineers living there, Georges Fenies and Armand Guillou, are passionate about hand-knotted carpets in their spare time. At that time thes...

This is a mid-20th century hand knotted Khotan rug with a beige color and medallion geometric design. The rug measures 4'6" x 8'11".  

The ecru open field is anchored by a dark blue, scalloped and reticulated roundel of a dragon within roiling clouds, and is echoed in the similar dragon accented triangular floating corners...

This beautiful Art Deco-style Chinese rug from the mid 20th century features a soft pale pink or apricot-colored field, paired with a striking navy and French blue lattice border. Inspired by the elegant aesthetics of 18th–19th century Ningxia carpets, the design showcases a classic lotus and lattice motif, blending tradition with timeless charm. The rug's harmonious color palette, including shades of blue and olive green, brings depth and sophistication, while the gentle apricot field adds warmth and softness to any space. Perfect for modern interiors, serene bedrooms, or formal living rooms, this piece combines historic influence with refined Art Deco styling, making it a versatile and eye-catching addition to your collection or home. Dimensions: 8’ 2” x 11’ Date of Manufacture: 2nd Quarter of the 1900s Place of Origin: China Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation Condition: Wear consistent with age and use The Persian Knot Gallery, SKU 1732 Art Deco Chinese, Chinese Art Deco, Art Deco Rugs, Antique Peking Rugs, Vintage Art Deco Rugs, Rugs Art Deco, Art Deco Nichols, Chinese Carpet Dragon, Nichols Deco Rugs, Chinese Art Deco Nichols, Nichols Art Deco Carpet, Chinese Floral Rugs, Chinese Peking Rugs, Peking Carpets, Antique Chinese Peking Carpets, Antique Peking Rug, Antique Peking Carpet, Chinese Rug Dragon, Peking Chinese, Chinese Pagoda Rug, Vintage Oriental Rugs, Antique Oriental Rugs, Vintage Pale Peach Chinese Rug.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures:

The wine-brown field is diagonally wide open and guided by asymmetric rose, peony and lotus corners bin bright polychromy. The dark pink border has a lace-like character with barbed ...

The beige open field is centred by a miniature landscape roundel featuring a leafy tree growing from banded rocks. The border is similarly plain except for identical branch and f...

Antique Chinese, Art Deco rug. Size: 8'3" x 9'9".

This is an “end of day” rug incorporating the yarn bits left over from weaving larger carpets. The field is generally putty-toned, with lines in various blues and reds. Plain navy b...

Mid-20th century Art Deco Chinese rug Size: 6'0" × 9'0" (182 × 274 cm) This captivating Chinese Art Deco rug from the 1950s is a striking example of mid-century Eastern design tailor...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet: 8' 8"x 11' 4"

Mid 20th Century Silk & Gold Thread Chinese Embroidery 2' x 2'8" - 60 x 80

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

This carpet is hand knotted in China. Known as mainland Chinese these carpets were made with high quality wool and all organic dyes, which makes them age really well and develop a ni...

77415 Vintage Chinese Tabriz Rug, 11'11 x 17'11. With timeless appeal, ornate decorative detailing, and effortless beauty, this hand knotted wool vintage Chinese Tabriz palace rug...

A charming early 20th century Chinese Peking rug with a central peony medallion amidst a field of more peonies and surrounded by a wide complex border containing geometric and floral...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4'2" x 7' - 127 x 213 ) A salmon field is centered by a bold Shou (good luck) medallion within a wreath of bats and ensuite bat corners. A narrow pla...

From its elegance and unusual style, one can recognize this splendid Chinese carpet from the Art Deco period. The wool is shiny and silky, spun thicker than ordinary Chinese wool. Th...

A fantastic large-scale early 20th century Persian Heriz rug with a large stylized central floral medallion woven with an intricate floral and leave pattern, and living admits a fiel...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 358 )

The straw beige field displays a characteristic three moon medallion pattern, with two moons enclosing octogramme motives. Supporting scatter with butterflies, leaves and flower arr...

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 297 )

Two pine trees surge in parallel up the cerise field, with details in sky blue and salmon, and are finialed at both ends by spreading, straight nearly bare branches forming Vees, Sh...

A Mid-Century Chinese Deco carpet.

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...

1930s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 14' x 17'6" - 427 x 533 )

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

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...

A vintage East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 12' 6".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century in blue. Measures: 2' 11" x 4' 10".

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

Large Wool on cotton Taupe/ Green Floral Nepalese area rug with pink floral motifs throughout the entirety of the rug. Measurements: 66" X 42" Circa 1950, Nepal

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 10" x 4' 8".

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

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

Oversized French Aubusson style pile carpet features border of flowers and bows and central medallion of roses flanked by urns on cream ground, approx 10' x 16', circa 1950. Measur...

These handmade carpet wool rugs have airy and fiery elements that are grounded by splashing waves and jutting peaks that provide a sense of balance and tradition. Borrowing from the new and the old, this palatial Chinese carpet Oriental rug showcases a formal dragon medallion with traditional symbols and design elements that are depicted in a fresh, creative manner. Mauves and bright azures on the red rug inject the traditional palette of soft camel brown and clear blue with vivid ‘Art Deco...

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

A rare and unusual carpet woven in two colors with an all-over pattern of square devices. Although it was originally sourced in China, carpets of this type were influenced by the Eur...

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...

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

This fine needlepoint features a fantastic river scene with women washing clothes and a young girl dipping her toes. The detail in this handwoven needlepoint is intricate and makes the perfect accent accessory. Woven with hand-spun wool which has been organically dyed with vegetable dyeing techniques. Suitable for use as a wall hanging or as a rug. Unique and sophisticated this piece is sure to uplift any home interiors. Handmade rugs needlepoint carpet tapestry wall hanging rug...

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...

Vintage Khotan Rug 6'6" x 9'4". City in western China (Xinjiang Province), active since the 18th century. Moderate weave on cotton. Long rugs (kng formats) and more recently room siz...

A sweet monumental-scale vintage Chinese Aubusson-style rug with an-all petite floral pattern containing myriad floral varieties woven in myri...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 12' x 19'4" - 365 x 560 )

Hand knotted in wool from China circa 1950-1960, a vintage Art Deco rug joining Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage Collection. Drawing on 1920s style in mid-century quality with a delic...

A wonderful mid-20th century Chinese runner with a pale fuchsia field with a central swirling dragon medallion flanked by pairs of peony and lotus med...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 15' - 297 x 457 )

Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Wool Rug Size: 3'0" × 4'9" (91 × 144 cm) A striking example of early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco design, this handwoven wool rug from the 1930s effor...

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 diagonal black fibres. Dim...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 )

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

A Chinese Nichols oriental rug offers wool construction in circular form with central floral medallion on red ground, C1940 Measures - 55''H x 55'...

Pure wool Peking rug, entirely hand-knotted measuring 250 cm. x 150 cm..With the classic colors of light blue. This elegant craftsmanship reflects the style and sophistication of the...