Chinese Rugs and Carpets

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...

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Dragon Carpet ( 9'8" x 12' - 295 x 365 )

A rare and unusual Chinese rug decorated with an all-over pattern of eight-petalled rosettes, joined together to form a lattice in the negative of which is the longevity motif, that ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Mat ( 1'7'' x 2' - 48 x 60 )

A bold early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant gold field with a large multi-colored peony cluster in one corner.

Antique Chinese - Silk rug, size: 8'10" x 12'0".

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5' x 8'1'' - 152 x 246 )

This 2x10 antique Chinese textile runner is an incredibly rare and exciting new curation from Rug & Kilim—an early 19th century embroidery panel with a bold pictorial design, handwov...

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

Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet with Dragons ( 9'x 12' - 275 x 365 )

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'7'' - 275 x 353 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8 8" x 11'2" - 265 x 340 )

Hand knotted in wool originating from one of our most reputed long-standing partner looms in Nepal, this addition to the European Collection by Rug & Kilim recaptures the sensibiliti...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 3'0" x 5'10".

An antique East Turkestan Khotan gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 8" x 13' 1".

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...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 9'10" x 15'6".

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

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

Early 20th Century Peking Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'8" - 250 x 295 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 13' 9'' x15' 3''

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'6'' - 275 x 350 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Meausres 2' 0'' x 2' 0''.

Antique Chinese - Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'8". Dragon design in borders.  

Early 20th Century Chinese (Inner Mongolian) Peking Carpet (6'5" x 9'-195 x275)

A rare dark blue chair seat with a fierce writhing central dragon and four surrounding similar creatures. Clouds are scattered about. A mountain, wave...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Foo Dog Rug 2'7" x 4'2" - 79 x 127

These cushions are fine examples of needlepoints from the 1990s, constructed in china with the traditional French Aubusson style and technique. These Aubusson style cushions feature ...

Distinguished by an unusual all-over grid pattern on a soft lemon yellow background, this carpet is an example of the eclecticism of Chinese weavings in ...

American Hooked rug 9'0" x 12'0". Handwoven.

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 90 x 152 )

1920s Chinese Baotou Saddle Cover ( 2' x 4'2" - 61 x 127 )

This elegantly hand woven rug is from China and woven from the finest wools to create a soft and luxurious piece that will work well in so many different settings. Size: 2' X 3'-9"

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 3'0" x 5'4".

Made with fine quality hand spun wool yarns, this handmade cut and loop pile rug has natural variations in colors and texture similar to antique rugs. Ha...

The fine carpets of Peking represent the other end of the spectrum of Chinese textile art, expressing a late Qing dynasty aesthetic that is based o...

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'8" - 91 x 142 )

Mid-19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5'2" x 10'2" - 157 x 310 )

The border-less open royal blue field shows a large and a small floral bouquet diagonally opposed, but linked by a continuous sketchy light blue cloud meander, almost like smoke from a dying fire...

A gorgeous early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with large clusters of multicolored lotus and chrysanthemums in each corner on dark indigo background. The border is exciting with ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 2'4" x 4' - 70 x 122 )

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...

A brilliant Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful cranberry field surrounded by a wide grey border. Multicolored potted peonies, chrysanthemum, and prunus flowers are asymmetrically ...

A quiet yet sophisticated early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a gray background surrounded by a wide pale pink border, and overlaid with a pair of lanterns hanging from a fl...

A rare and unusual Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period characterised by an all-over pattern of tone on tone lotus flowers scrolling on a soft cream background within a circula...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 )

Early 19th Century Central Asian Chinese Khotan Carpet on Yellow-Gold Background ( 4'10" x 7' - 147 x 213 )

A rare and unusual red ground Chinese rug decorated by an infinite repeat pattern composed of a network of geometric devices derived from silk brocades of the Ming period. Examples o...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'6" - 280 x 350 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 297 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' 6" x 11' 8" - 320 x 355 cm )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 9'2" x 11'8".

19th Century W. Chinese Kansu Runner Carpet 3'8" x 17'3".

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

Nice mid century Chinese silk embroidery with beautiful design with two dragons and nice colours with a red background, entirely hand embroidered with silk and metal on silk foundati...

Hand knotted in wool originating from East Turkestan circa 1890-1900, this antique rug connotes a classic Khotan rug design with a classic approach to transitional colorway celebrate...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 ) This Minimalist-leaning ruby red, border-less carpet shows just two floating floral forms, one a single flower and the other ...

Antique Chinese Bao Tou rug, size: 2'0" x 3'8".