Chinese Rugs and Carpets

77631 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. A radiant relic of cultural storytelling and visual poetry, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug captures the splend...

A fine early 20th century Indigo blue peking rug. Measures: cm 350 x 280.

This elegant antique Art Deco Chinese wool rug features a goldenrod-colored field with a burgundy-colored decorative border and vibrant accents, showcasing a stunning classic Chinese...

Handwoven in wool, this 4x6 contemporary rug by Rug & Kilim is inspired by antique Tudor rugs, flatweaves and tapestries—a new unveiling from the European rug collection. On the De...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 8'2" x 9'8" - 249 x 295

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'10" x 12' - 270 x 365 )

Mid-Century Beijing silk carpet, 20th century China Intact and in good condition, 38 cm x 76 cm

79119 Antique Red Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'10 x 09'01. A radiant masterpiece of 20th-century textile artistry, this hand-knotted wool magnificent antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a ta...

The most recognizable rugs from the 1920s and 1930s are Chinese Rugs made by Walter Nichols. These Nichols rugs, as they came to be known, were primarily made during the Art Deco mov...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

This is a superb antique Chinese Art Deco Rug from the 1930s. It is in pristine condition with full pile and no wear. Made from Manchester Wool, it is complete with nothing missing....

Antique Chinese - Peking rug. Size: 4'0" x 6'9".

Nice little Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors with blue, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Beautiful Antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted wool Rug, with a beige field, and navy blue frame in an allover Classic Peking design. This rug measures 10'3" x 13'7".

Art Deco Chinese rug in original condition. This rug was made in light burgundy color for the filed and darker burgundy for the border. The rug is in floral design, covered randomly ...

53479 Antique Chinese Ningxia Pillar Rug 03'05 x 14'01. This exquisite hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Ningxia pillar rug unveils a fascinating na...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating from China circa 1920-1930, this is a 9x11 rare collectible from the 1920s Chinoiserie style period pieces, and one of our new favorite cu...

Hand-knotted in wool, an antique 9x12 Chinese Art Deco rug joining Rug & Kilim’s repertoire of coveted 1920s masterpieces. This interpretation of the classic style enjoys a brilliant...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4'0" x 6'11", features a striking oval composition that captures the elegance and vibrancy characteristic of the era. The soft l...

71754, antique Chinese oval accent rug with Pictorial Phoenix design. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese oval rug features a pictorial oval medallio...

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: 9' x 11'8".

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4' 2" x 6' 10", features a rich and sophisticated design with a striking interplay of color and form. The deep blue field is ado...

A Chinese silk pictorial rug. On a border-less burgundy red ground, 11 Immortals stand on clouds .Each immortal has its own unique colorful outfit o...

An antique East Turkestan Khotan throw rug. The salmon-pink field of this lively small scatter from the Xinjiang oasis city of Khotan displays two wiry, openwork octagons in dark bro...

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in orange and green colours. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original good condition. The rug has a symbol of Indian swastic. -Con...

Antique rug vintage pillowcase zipper cushion handmade needlepoint pillow cover, view one of the most comprehensive collections of the decorative p...

Beautiful mid century Chinese beijing Art Deco design rug with beautiful design and nice colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotto...

72180 Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style 11'00 x 14'05. This gorgeous antique Peking rug features a complex yet traditional design that spreads acros...

Very beautiful and antique Chinese embroidery with beautiful design with birds, dogs, symbols and scriptures, and with nice natural colours with a red brown background, entirely hand...

Mid 19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery ( 3' x 3'10" - 90 x 118 )

This antique Khotan rug, dated 1928, has a shaded sky-blue field with an overall angular shaded brown and ivory pomegranate vine, an inner border or light blue narrow double stripes ...

A captivating early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug, this piece is a masterful blend of symbolism and color. The soft peach-colored field is framed by a thin navy blue stripe and a...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 8'0"x 9'8"

An early 20th century antique Khotan rug 4'1'' x 6'10''

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 ) 1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop A striking Chinese Art Deco carpet from the famed Nicho...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a dragon in black, blue, red, goldenrod, and light blue-grey over a cream-white borderless field. Measures: 1' 3" x 1' 6" 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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 3'10" - 61 x 117 )

Antique Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug 10x13 1920 9'9" x 12'8" 298cm x 386cm "This is a beautiful antique art deco rug with simple motifs. This piece has a great neutral colorwa...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant fuchsia field surrounded by a border with large-scale chrystanthemum flowers amidst a tightly woven scrolling vin...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Size: 9' x 11' 6"

Beautiful large Chinese Art Deco rug with a floral design on a sna field and plum border. Room size formats are usually found in the 8 x 10...

A pagoda, arched bridge and gazebo float in on medium blue watery clouds from one side of the light green field while a gnarled flowering prunus (plum) branch snakes in from one corn...

This stunning antique Chinese Art Deco rug is expertly hand-knotted from premium wool. It features a rich burgundy background adorned with a vibrant, multicolored floral design, eleg...

78614 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. Emulating maximalist style with opulent detail work and lavish texture, this antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a captivating vision ...

Early 20th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Rug 2'x2' 2"

78317 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 09'00 x 11'09. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a color-blocked field and border scheme festooned with large, glorious sprays of flowers. Lotuses, peonies, chrysanthemums, and plum blossoms elegantly spread across the composition, breaking across the borders and field, creating a sense of splendor and vitality than cannot be contained. The colorful, intricate floral motifs showcase lotuses, peonies, chrysanthemums, and plum flowers blossoming in a swirl of tantalizing vinery. This ensemble of flowers, when appearing together, represents the Four Seasons, while each of the flowers carries...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a champagne colored field surrounded by a contrasting champagne colored border, and both overlaid with indigo and pink cherry...

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

77452 Rare Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'11 x 11'06. Like a moonlit garden glimpsed through twilight, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug unfurls with dreamlike elegance and profound symbolic depth. Its celestial navy field glows like an endless night sky, setting the stage for a lyrical interplay of blossoms and birds drifting in graceful harmony. A rich red inner border adds warmth and contrast, embracing the nocturne tableau, while the overall asymmetrical yet balanced composition reflects the golden age of Shanghai Art Deco in the 1920s and 1930s, where classical Chinese motifs converged with the bold palettes and refined modernist lines of the era. From corner to corner, signature blossoms bloom in exquisite profusion, each carrying timeless meaning. Plum blossoms, peonies, lotuses, and chrysanthemums — the revered Four Gentlemen — unfold as symbols of the seasons and of human virtues: resilience, honor, purity, and longevity. The plum blossom’s delicate blooms rise defiantly in winter; the peony bursts forth in spring with opulent promise of wealth; the lotus lifts itself unsullied from summer waters; and the chrysanthemum radiates autumn’s golden serenity. Interspersed among them, vines and berries weave arabesques across the surface, suggesting both divine order and organic freedom, a duality at the heart of Chinese art. At the crown, a luminous lantern descends, radiating festivity and guiding light. Across the field, songbirds flit with wings outstretched, symbols of transcendence and spiritual freedom. Along the lower border, a pair of mandarin ducks rests among reeds and water lilies — eternal emblems of fidelity and marital harmony. These painterly creatures, poised in mid-flight or repose, are not mere decoration but custodians of deeper meaning, enriching this exquisite work of art with layers of cultural resonance and quiet storytelling. The taupe outer border completes the exclusive masterpiece, scattered with blossoms and sprigs, its softened tones evoking a garden wall kissed with ivy...

1920s Scenic Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop

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...

Vintage Art Deco rug Dragon rug Chinese peking rug beige 5x8 153cm x 244cm 130cmx191cm "This incredible rare Vintage Peking piece is a fine example of the art of ancient Ch...

This Mid-20th century Chinese Peking Art Deco rug, measuring 8' 0" x 9' 10", is a striking example of the bold design and rich color palette characteristic of the Art Deco period. Th...

Handwoven recreation of the Classic French flat-weave Aubusson rugs that have been found in the finest homes and palaces since the late 17th century. Size: 9' 11” x 14' 2”.

Antique Chinese Rug Ningshia Rare 5 Paw Dragon 1920 6'4" x 9' 6x9 193x274cm "This incredible rare Antique piece is a fine example of the art of ancie...

Introducing a stunning and exceptionally rare antique Chinese rug, boasting an exquisite dragon-themed design that features an astonishing five majestic dragons. This masterpiece sho...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, brown frame in a gorgeous all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 8'11" x 11'11".  

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, ...

71052 Rare Antique Chinese Silk Tapestry, 02'11 x 04'08. This exceptional antique handwoven Chinese silk tapestry is a masterwork of textile artistry—an exceedingly rare example of Q...