Chinese Rugs and Carpets

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' 3" x 12'

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco runner, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, tan frame in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 2'6" x 4'10". ...

This early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug is a quietly dramatic study in elegance and asymmetry. The soft gray field is anchored by a large off-center medallion—a lush cluster of ...

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 antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a goldenrod field, navy- blue, red frame, and multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. ...

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...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco square rug 6 x 7, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, and a tan accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese art design. The great Chines wal...

This beautifully handwoven Aubusson rug is sure to make a great accent piece in any room it’s introduced too. An ivory blue color makes up the background of this elegant area rug. Th...

Originating from China, this new transitional wool rug employs an homage to 18th century Aubusson style in an all-over field design with distinct...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'1'' x 9'5'' - 246 x 287 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Carpet ( 2'7" x 4'2"-78 x 127)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Workshop 8' 6" x 10' 6'' - 260 x 320

An antique East Turkestan Khotan accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 11"

This early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug is a refined example of East meets West design, with a quiet palette and rich symbolism. The field is a soft, elegant gray, framed by a n...

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...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

Late 19th Century Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 11'6" x 21'3" - 350 x 650 )

A 6x7 antique rug in needlepoint style, handmade in wool originating from China circa 1920-1930. Outstanding in its rare pictorial style, complemented by forgiving beige-brown, green...

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

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rugs, size: 11' 0'' x 14' 0''.

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating from China, this 11x13 oversized antique Peking rug features an intricate symbolic pictorial design with Buddhist and Taoist motifs on a midnight-blue field framed by a formal ivory border—an exciting new curation from Rug & Kilim’s collection of late 19th century rugs. On the Design: Exemplifying pictorial traditions of late 19th century imperial workshop productions, this design centers on a distinctive hourglass-shaped medallion rendered in ivory with detailed scale patterns and internal floral motifs, likely representing a stylized Buddhist endless knot symbol. Surrounding this central element is a complex arrangement of auspicious symbols and narrative vignettes scattered across the deep blue field in a deliberate asymmetrical composition. Notable motifs include court figures, elephants with riders, vases, floral arrangements, and various Buddhist and Taoist emblems including ruyi scepters and cloud formations.The branching ivory-colored linear elements create structural organization across the field, connecting various pictorial elements while suggesting a cosmic or landscape framework. The border employs a formal arrangement with an ivory ground hosting Buddhist emblems and stylized floral motifs, punctuated by blue diamond patterns at the corners and midpoints. Calligraphic cartouches appear at the top and bottom borders, likely containing auspicious inscriptions or dedications. The restricted palette—predominantly indigo, ivory, and selective pale blue accents—creates visual coherence. This rug represents the refined aesthetic sensibilities of late Qing dynasty textile...

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...

74478, antique Chinese Peking Accent rug with Chinese Art Deco style. This antique Peking rug showcases a beautiful Chinese Art Deco style. It has a circular shaped central medallion...

76703, vintage Persian style rug with traditional style. Opulent and whimsical, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian style rug with traditi...

Rug Number 31404 Size 8' 0" X 9' 8" Design Peking Collection Antique/Vintage Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin China Age Antique

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Carpet with Phoenix 5'6" x 9' - 168 x 274

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

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon-Phoenix Carpet 10'2'' x 13'5'' - 310 x 410

An extraordinary Chinese Art Deco rug with several clusters of auspicious flowers like peonies and chrysanthemums, symbols of longevity and prosperity, all on a cranberry background....

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Modernist Design (2'10'' x 5'9'' - 86 x 175)

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

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 ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 1'7'' x 2' - 48 x 61 cm )

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

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...

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...

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...

Chinese art deco rugs are rugs that combine elements of traditional Chinese art with the decorative style of Art Deco, an art and design movement that originated in the 1920s and 193...

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

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'9" - 188 x 267 )

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a gold inner stripe, wide indigo central st...

1920s Chinese Oval Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2'' x 7'9'' - 188 x 236 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 4'2"x6'10"

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

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 4'2" x 7' - 127 x 213 )

I don’t know of any other East Turkestan rug with only two niches, displayed here in a sort of yin yang. The outstanding palette, consisting of three shades of red, blue and green, i...

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: This rug recaptures the Chinese Art Deco rug styl...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'3".

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 11'10" x 17'0".

72021 New Contemporary Modern Chinese Art Deco Rug 11'06 x 18'00. This hand knotted wool contemporary modern Chinese Palace size rug features an Art Deco style showcasing symmetry an...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Dragon & Phoenix Carpet ( 6' x 8' - 183 x 245 )

A wonderful and bold early 20th century central Asian pictorial Khotan rug made for the Chinese market with wonderful Buddhist symbols. Details includ...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo background surrounded by a wide fuchsia border, and overlaid with wispy prunus blossoms and peonies, butterflies, and a garden...

A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".

78313 Distressed Antique Chinese peking rug, 09.02 x 15.01. With its rugged beauty and rustic sensibility, this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug will take on a curated li...

Step into a realm of timeless elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Rug, a genuine marvel from the 1920s that exudes the charm of a bygone era. Meticulously crafted in China, this rug...

Elegant, rare, and rich in cultural symbolism, this early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug features a striking French blue field framed by a deep navy border, creating a sophisticated and serene color palette that elevates any interior. At the center soars a majestic Phoenix, a powerful symbol of rebirth and renewal. The corners and borders are adorned with delicate flower vase motifs, paired with a collection of traditional Chinese symbols representing life, happiness, and longevity. The rug’s harmonious blend of navy, baby blue, red, purple, and soft pink accent colors brings warmth and vibrancy without overwhelming its refined Art Deco simplicity. Celebrated for their bold yet balanced aesthetic, Chinese Art Deco rugs like this one have become highly sought after for their timeless design and unique color combinations. Ideal for a grand living room, formal dining space, or elegant gallery setting, this oversize rug makes a bold statement rooted in tradition and artistry. Dimensions: 10’ x 16’ 4” Date of Manufacture: 1st 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, SKU: 2147 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...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3' x 5' - 91 x 152 )

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...