Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, 2'6" x 4'8", c-1920, curious Bird. Handwoven with natural dyed of soft wool pile, in gold and purple background color and traditional and unique floral ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 6'' x 19' 3'' - 76 x 586 cm )

Antique Chinese Rug Antique Art Deco Rug Large Chinese Rug Square 13x13.5 ft 13' x 13'7" 397cm x 414cm "This is a very unique antique Ar...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 8".

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

This is a modern Chinese Art Deco silk rug that measures 241 x167 cm in size. This piece has an abstract design that revolves around three different-size...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 355 cm )

77407, distressed antique Chinese Peking rug with Traditional chinoiserie style 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Peking area rug...

1920s Antique Chinese Art Deco Round Carpet ( 2' R - 62 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'7" - 270 x 353 cm)

Very beautiful mid century Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and nice light colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ...

A monumental early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with several floral cluster medallions and vases potted with chrysanthemums and prunus blossoms set against a fuchsia covered in ...

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' 6" x 13' 4" - 290 x 405 )

21679 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 06'01 x 08'09. Chinese Art Deco rugs originated in China during the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the bold geometric patterns, vibrant colors, and l...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 4' x 6'6'' - 122 x 198 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'2" - 270 x 340 cm )

Antique Art Deco Chinese Carpet, Dragon and paradise. Open green field with dragon and floral design, absolutely in perfect condition and very fine wool with nice high pile. This ...

1920s Black Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 13' 6" - 304 x 412 cm )

Antique Handmade Art Deco Chinese carpet, c-1920's, 8'8" x 11'4". Woven with natural dyed soft wool pile, in green and purple background color and traditional floral design, this car...

Unusual Chinese Art Deco Carpet From 1920s measuring 9' x 11' 6" - 275 x 350 cm

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 8'10" x 11'4" - 270 x 345 )

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a deep cranberry colored background surrounded by a black border, and myriad auspicious ...

Step into a world of timeless elegance with our captivating Antique Handmade Art Deco Chinese Rug, a remarkable oval-shaped treasure measuring 2'5" x 4'10". Crafted in the 1920s, thi...

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'6" - 264 x 348 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 14'2'' - 305 x 412 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 275 x 358 )

Among the works of Rug & Kilim in collaboration with revered colleague Teddy Sumner, an all-wool needlepoint handmade circa 1980-1990. This particular rug reimagines architectural, c...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9' 6" - 245 x 290 cm ) On Yellow Background.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 9" x 11' 5" - 266 x 348 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 298 )

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpets 2'1'' x 11' 8'' - 64 x 355

This rug was hand woven in China. With a maroon field and small border in indigo blue it is decorated with green, yellow and blue carnations. There are ...

An antique Chinese Peking long and narrow format room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 9' 10" x 16' 2".

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Chinese rug has a tan frame in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 9'1" x 11'5"...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'9" - 269 x 358 cm )

An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4" 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 beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant fuchsia field surrounded by a wide turquoise border flanked by narrow gold and fuchsia stripes. Overlaying the border are wonderful large-scale peonies and scrolling vines, all woven in gold, gray, teal and pink.

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with the goldenrod field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese f...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 12'8" - 2780 x 355 )

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a tan field. This Chinese rug has a yellow and blue frame with green accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 2" x 3' 9" - 66 x 114 cm )

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo border surrounded a gray oval medallion overlaid with multi-colored peonies, lotus, chrysanthemum, and sherry b...

Beautiful Modern Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a brown field. This Chinese-style rug has a wide black frame and multicolor accent colors with a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a green field. This Chinese rug has a purple and black wide frame and multi-color accent colors in a gorgeous all-over C...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet on Mauve Filed ( 9' 2" x 11' 2" - 280 x 340 cm)

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

Circa 1930's Warm ochre hues in luxurious wool contrasted against royal blues and an asymmetrical floral theme. Excellent overall pile condition with minor age and use spots as sh...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 92 x 152 cm )

Vintage/Antique handmade Art Deco Chinese carpet, perfect natural dyed Blue background color. c-1940, traditionally floral Design on two corners, rectangular shape. In excellent cond...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a muted cranberry field surrounded by a wide indigo border, and all overlaid with multi-colored peonies and lotus flowers, wi...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'6" - 269 x 350 cm )

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

A chic early 20th century Chinese Mandarin rug with a pale orange field with a cream colored striped border with a central peony medallion with chrysanthe...

Vintage 1970s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 9'2" - 188 x 280 )

A contemporary Art Deco style Tibetan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 0".

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This Chinese rug has multicolor accent colors with a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. This rug measures...