Mid-20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

77523, vintage Chinese needlepoint Aubusson style rug with English Cottage style. Balancing a timeless design with traditional sensibility, this hand-woven wool vintage Chinese needlepoint rug...

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...

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

Nice vintage rug from Tibet, with simple Chinese design, and blue field patterns, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury...

A vintage Chinese square rug in predominant shades of midnight blue. The wool is very soft and all the colors are natural. 5'4'' x 5'11''

The dark red-brown field shows a homestead among rocks in one corner, which is loomed over by an array of huge flowering stems. Similar flowers run up along the opposite border and s...

Exquisite mid-century Chinese Beijing rug, featuring a captivating design and vibrant colors. Hand-knotted with meticulous craftsmanship, this rug boasts a blue field adorned with st...

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...

The semi-open ruby red field displays a multiple vignette design of groups of seasonal flowers detailed in pale blue, medium blue, yellow and leaf green. A blue branch snakes in from...

Nice mid century Chinese peking rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome ...

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 Uzbek Bukhara rug in original good condition from the middle of 20th century. The rug has been made in red wool. - Condition: original good, - circa 1960s, - Size:...

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

A vintage Chinese carpet with a Khotan design from the second quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 8"

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...

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...

Very beautiful Manila embroidery with a Chinese style and beautiful floral design, entirely hand embroidered with silk on silk foundation.  

Discover the elegance of this exquisite mid-century Chinese Beijing rug featuring a stunning Chinese design in vibrant blue, brown, and touches of green on a luxurious beige backgrou...

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...

Originating from China between 1960, this antique traditional Peking rug is one of a select design featuring rich, repeated character symbols in its middle border. Hand knotted in high quality silk with subtle, luminous texture, the cream pink background is a lesser-known colourway among this antique family, complemented by the more vibrant series of turn of the century reminiscent floral and infinite knot...

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

?78125 Distressed Vintage Chinese Peking rug with Art Deco Style 07'06 x 10'07. ?With Art Deco style, this hand knotted wool distressed vintage Chinese Peking rug features an elegant...

Modern Chinese Art Deco Black background, pink border, blue and yellow flowers Circa 1930s 9x11'9.

Beautiful Chinese art Deco wool rug hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field. This Piece has a red frame and multicolor accents in a gorgeous traditi...

Nice half hand and half machine knotted European rug with a Chinese Pekin design and a yellow field color, with blue and brown, wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Very beautiful mid-century Chinese silk rug with beautiful Chinese design and nice colors with a beautiful yellow field color. Entirely hand knotted with silk velvet on silk foundati...

This antique Khotan runner has a shaded sky-blue field with a central column of dusty-pink pomegranate and angular leafy vine issuing further pomegranates, in a shaded mid-blue borde...

Exquisite French Knotted Rug with Stunning Chinese Design! This beautiful French knotted rug features an intricate Chinese design with a captivating co...

Nice large rug from China or Samarkand, mid-20th century, with a beautiful design and patterns, decorative carpet, and beautiful colors with purple, entirely hand knotted with wool v...

Beautiful mid century Sinkiang runner with nice Caucasian shirwan design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of...

Elevate your space with the opulence of this Vintage Asian Chinese Nichols Silk Rug. Known for its luxurious texture and intricate designs, this rug offers a perfect blend of traditi...

78300 Vintage Chinese Kerman Rug, 03'02 x 05'04. Sophisticated and refined with Victorian style, this hand knotted wool vintage Chinese Kerman rug charms with ease. Taking center st...

A Mid-Century Chinese Deco carpet.

Vintage 1960s Khotan runner rug with a bright red, overdyed field and medallion design. Measures 4'2" x 12'2".

:: Center roundel medallion atop a covered field of minor medallions, potted plants, buds and blossoms. Reciprocating inner running T minor border wrapped by a wide vine meandering m...

A mid-20th century hand knotted vintage Khotan rug with a beige color and all-over design. The rug measures 5'3" x 11'3".  

78219 Vintage Silk Qum Style Rug, 03'00 x 05'01. Rendered in variegated shades of red, blue, beige, navy blue, sky blue, pistachio, peach, and tan w...

An unusual vintage Indian rug woven with a Chinese Art Deco style pattern containing bouquets of flowers woven in various shades of green, pink, cranbe...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5'2" x 7'4" - 158 x 224 )

This is a mid-20th century hand knotted Khotan rug with a beige color and all-over design. The rug measures 5'9" x 10'5".  

Chinese Ninghsia style “Hundred Antiques” carpet circa 1960. Measures 9.ft.6in. x 6ft. (290cm. x 183cm.) A central medallion surrounded by cult...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'2" x 9'10".

1930s Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 8' x 10'10" - 245 330 )

Graceful and timeless, this vintage Chinese Art Deco rug from the early 1900s showcases a serene tan wool field beautifully framed by a soft baby blue border. Hand-knotted with care,...

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

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

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

78083 vintage Persian shiraz rug with Mid-Century Modern Tribal style 06'09 x 09'09. Full of tiny details and a bold expressive design combined with vibrant colors and tribal style, ...

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

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

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 vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century in shades of green and cream. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 10".

Vintage Silk Chinese Runner 2’4’ X 10’11”. A generic term referring to any carpets made within the confines of the Middle Kingdom including: Ningxia (north central China), Peking (wo...

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

A beautiful early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan rug with several medallions with stylized flowers woven in muted colors inducing gold, crimson, pink, and brown against a coral c...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 6'8" x 9'6".

Early 20th Century Central Asian Chinese Khotan Carpet 8'7" x 11'8" - 262 x 356