Chinese Rugs and Carpets

Exquisite Chinese Khotan Rug with Central Figurative Design and Floral Vases. There’s a decorative stool, adorned with vases of flowers in shades of pink, yellow, violet, brown, and ...

A rare antique orange Chinese Tibetan dragon rug likely from a Tibetan monastery. The ornamentation along the top imitates a curtain or a skirt, which indicates it was a pillar rug, ...

Early 20 Century Chinese Baotou Rug ( 2'6" x 4'8" - 76 x 142 )

An early 20th-century East Turkestan Khotan Pictographic rug Measures: 5'11'' x 9'7''.

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a tone-on-tone gray field surrounded by a wide gray border, and indigo scholar's vases in opposing corners each potted with auspicious...

Nice mid century Chinese rug from Xinjiang, and beautiful geometrical design, and nice colours with a blue sky orange, yellow and black, entirely hand knotted with wool on cotton fou...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Dragon Carpet ( 5'7" x 8'7" - 170 x 262 )

Beautiful large vintage Chinese rug from the mid-20th century, entirely hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation. Art Deco-inspired design featuring a red background with a medall...

late 19th century east turkestan Khotan rug with cantaloupe colored ground. 4'1'' x 5'4''

Beautiful antique Chinese Peking hand knotted wool rug with a blue field, orange frame, and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measure: 9' ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

A vintage Chinese pictorial accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century of horses prancing in a field over a dark midnight blue background. Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 6".

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

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

An unusual early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a fuchsia ground surrounded by an unusually patterned border containing several floral cartouches alternating with puffs of bi...

Beautiful Antique Chinese Nichols hand-knotted wool Rug with a beige field, navy-blue frame, and multi-color accents in an allover Classic Chinese floral...

Hand knotted in wool, an 8x10 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts a bold open field from this p...

Tony Duquette - 'Malachite' Rug 9 x 12 feet Material: 100% Silk “Beauty not luxury, is what I value” was Tony Duquette’s refrain. Hutton Wilkinson provided Via Como with designs fr...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2'6" x 11'4" - 76 x 345 )

Handwoven in wool, this 9x12 Aubusson flatweave rug in beige and brown features an array of motifs ranging from vases to griffins—a mythological creature of the handful seen in rare,...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, a hand knotted wool rug with a red field, and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic Chinese floral design, This rug measures: 8' x 9'9".

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 3" x 12' 8"

China, circa 1870 Handwoven Measures: 10'11" x 9'3" (333 x 282 cm)..

Handwoven in wool, this 10x14 contemporary rug by Rug & Kilim is inspired by antique Tudor rugs, flatweaves and tapestries—a new unveiling from the European rug collection. On the ...

77267 Antique Chinese Peking Wedding Rug, 11'01 x 15'05. Behold, the hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug that will transport you to a world of ele...

This early 20th-century Art Deco Chinese rug exudes tranquility with its soft natural wheat (light beige) field, framed by elegant gray and blue borders. The serene design features a...

Handwoven in wool, this 10x12 contemporary rug by Rug & Kilim is inspired by antique Tudor rugs, flatweaves and tapestries—a new unveiling from the European rug collection. On the ...

77585 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 02'04 x 04'07. This exceptional hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug captures the essence of classical Chinese symbolism and a...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 7".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'7" - 275 x 353 )

Antique Chinese, Peking rug, size: 2'0" x 4'6".

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with goldenrod and green field. This Chinese rug has a red frame and multi-color accent in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese fl...

Antique Chinese Blue Wool Rug Size: 14'2" × 19'8" (431 × 599 cm) China is a country of ancient traditions and art. Here is a great example of Chinese handmade wool rug circa 1920. Th...

78725 Antique Purple Chinese Art Deco Rug, 04'11 x 07'09. Chinese Art Deco rugs, originating in the early 20th century, marry traditional C...

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 mid 20th century room size Chinese rug in blue and yellow. The wool and feel of the rug is very soft on the feet. It has a silky sheen to it a...

Beautiful early 20th century Chinese rug with a lovely floral pattern on a gray field Measures: 6'2'' x 8'8''.

78301 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. ​Emulating sensual decadence with maximalist style and lavish texture, this antique Chinese Art Deco rug cultivates a desire for bo...

Via Como - 'Suzanni 6' Rug - Size 6' x 9' Material: 85% Wool - 15% Silk Introducing Via Como, the pinnacle of ultra high-end hand-knotted rugs. Renowned for their unrivaled artistry...

Beneath the tasseled lambrequin, the scaly, five claw dragon rises trailing coiled clouds on the dark blue ground above a five-point “mountain” within frothing surf. Below is a rainb...

77544 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'00 x 11'05. This antique Chinese Peking rug, meticulously hand-knotted from wool, showcases a striking design with a rounded medallion gracefully...

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...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 3" x 11' 8"

Handmade vintage Indian Seraband runner in original condition, it has some age discolorations. The rug is from the end of 20th century. -condition: original, age discolorations, -c...

An authentic full pile condition mid-20th century, Chinese Art Deco Mta rug with a large floral design on a green field Measures: 2' x 2'10''.

Exquisite Large Chinese Rug with Stunning Floral Design! This remarkable rug boasts a vibrant red background that sets the stage for a striking white medallion. The medallion is be...

An antique Chinese Peking deco carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century.

Handwoven in a wool flatweave, this 8x10 contemporary rug is a new unveiling from the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim—one of its earliest works, inspired by antique Aubusson r...

78303 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'02 x 09'05. This magnificent hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug transports viewers to a bygone era of exquisite artistry and vibran...

A minimalist one-of-a-kind vintage Chinese rug in blues. Measures: 2'3'' x 2'5''.

Handwoven in a wool flatweave, this 10x14 contemporary rug is a new unveiling from the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim—one of its earliest works, inspired by antique Aubusson ...

Antique Chinese Ningxia rug, size: 6'0" x 8'6".

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Carpets (4'4'' x 6'1'' - 132 x 185 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x10 rug is a new unveiling from the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim—one of its earliest works, inspired by Neoclassical antique Bessarabian Kilims ...

70718 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 03'00 x 04'10. Emanating the quiet elegance of a bygone era, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug unfolds like a page from a poetic...

The Older Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most other productions of Chinese goods, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since ...

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1920-1930, this 9x11 antique 9x11 Indochinese Art Deco rug is a rare and exciting curation from the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: This is an ex...

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet 8'6" x 9'6"