Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'7" - 269 x 353 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 356 )

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco runner with alternating auspicious floral and Shou character medallions set against an indigo background, and surrounded by a beautifu...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 7' 9'' x 9' 8'' - 235 x 295 cm )

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 8' 9" x11' 6"

1930s Bamboo Design Oval Black Chinese Art Deco Carpet (8'4" x 11'8" - 255 x355)

An antique Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 9".

Chinese Art Deco Lotus Flower Design Handmade Rug Size: 8'10" × 11'5" (269 × 347 cm) Chinese deco rugs were born in the first half of the 20th century to meet the needs of European c...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'8" x 13'2" - 295 x 402 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 265 x 345 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'3" - 274 x 343 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 2''x 14' 2'' - 340 x 432 cm )

Introducing our splendid of Imperial garden Chinese art deco rug, where artistry intertwines with symbolism. The enchanting jade multi color field hosts a majestic garden of Life...

Authentic Vintage Chinese Art Deco Wool Rug Size: 5'7" × 7'8" (170 × 233 cm) This striking wool area rug, crafted circa 1940s, is a superb example of Chinese Art Deco design, disting...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10" x 11' 6" - 270 x 350 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'9" - 183 x 267 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 15 - 305 x 458 cm )

This beautiful, small antique Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-knotted from high-quality wool. Its soft pink background is decorated with a vibrant, multicolored floral pattern elegantly...

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 wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a wide indigo border, and all overlaid with multi-colored auspicious flowers including peonie...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 17'6" - 305 x 533 )

1920s Chinese Oval Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 6'' x 4' 8'' - 76 x 142 cm )

1920s Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" X 11'6" - 266 x 350 ) Floral pattern with Navy background.

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Floral green background. 9' x 11'10" - 275 x 360

A vintage Chinese Art Deco rug handmade during the mid-20th century predominantly in red, green, and antique white, and with accent colors in silver, beige, pink, blue, and orange , ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'3" x 17'2" - 343 x 523 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 11'4'' - 183 x 345 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'9" x21'6" 358cm x 655cm )

The borderless rich red field displays baskets and porcelain vases overflowing with flowers in the corners and a pointed elliptical wreath with still more floral extrusions toward th...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 2'6" x 4'4" - 75 x 132 )

Made in hand knotted wool from the custom Classic Burano Collection by Rug & Kilim, this 2 × 3 this 2 × 3 rug is available as a gift-sized rug for both flooring and wall-hanging projects. Drawing inspiration from an 18th century Chinese rug...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand knotted wool rug with Navy-blue field. This rug has a frame of beige and accents of red, purple, and green in a gorgeous all-over Chinese flor...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6" - 245 x 290 )

A Beautiful Antique Chinese Art Deco Floral Area Rug, Country of origin: China, Circa date: 1920

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' X 8'6" - 183 x 260 cm )

On each of the four border sides are facing pairs of feng-hung (phoenix) birds with long wavy tail feathers, set around a paeony palmette. A black wiry arabesquerie supports the bird...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'5" - 270 x 348 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with red color Measures: 9'4" x 11'4".

The plain red field has a hanging basket dripping flower in the top right and a vase on stand with a more formal bouquet in the bottom left. The motives spill into the border and the...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 3'10" - 60 x 118 )

Contemporary Inspired Art Deco Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 15'7" × 20'9" (474 × 632 cm). Effortlessly elegant and boldly modern, this oversized Indian Dhurrie rug is a masterclass...

1920s Purple Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 14' x 15'4" - 426 x 467 cm )   

1920s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 2'6'' x 8'10'' - 76 x 269 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 3' x 11' - 90 x 335 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Debackground measuring 9' x 11'9" Green background with yellow border.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 5'2" x 10'2" - 157 x 309 )

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 274 x 358 )

Large Vintage Chinese Art Deco carpet Size: 14'10" × 18'8" (452 × 568 cm). This striking early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco carpet masterfully blends Eastern symbolism with Western ...

1930s Square Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 12' - 355 x 365 cm )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'10" x 92 x 147 cm )

Modern Art Deco-Inspired Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 9'0" × 12'0" (274 × 365 cm). This exceptional contemporary rug is a masterclass in refined geometry and tonal warmth, dr...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6 'x 8'6" - 183 x 260 )

A fine Peking type carpet woven by an honeycomb arrangement of polychrome lozenges with an almost random color distribution. Carpets of this type are representative of an early 20th...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'6" - 270 x 350 ) The delicate rose-pink cartouche-shaped field shows a giant lotus, rosette and leafy branch motif at one end, flanked by d...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 279 x 358 )

1920s Chinese At Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'4" - 267 x 345 )

1920s Round Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 3' - 92 x 92 cm )