East Asian 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...

79119 Antique Red Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'10 x 09'01. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a radiant example of 20th-century artistry, blending the bold aesthetics...

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...

Rare square little Chinese Ningxia carpet, simple and elegant for everywhere. the blue color has a special long preparation procedure and it's used for important carpets. ref. nr. 9...

Measures: 6'8 x 9'5. Vintage Hand Knotted Tukomen Ersari Rug in Red Background With Gul Design. Keivan Woven Arts; rug W22-0207, country of origin / type: Turkestan / Ersari, circa ...

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...

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

A beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand knotted wool rug with green field. This rug has a frame of red and multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. Thi...

78989 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 09'00 x 11'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug embodies the elegance and restrained beauty characteristic of early 2...

An incredible early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a fucshia ground overlaid with multi-colored flowers and scrolling vines, all woven in pinks, golds, greens, violets, and i...

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.

Early 19th Century Antique Dragon Design Chinese Rug 11'9'' X 7'3'', Handmade and Hand-knotted with dragon design Y & B B

A 20th century Chinese silk rug, with a simple Art Deco design, very decorative and finely hand knotted with silk velvet on silk foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury an...

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Carpet, Size: 9'x 11' 6"

Carpets such as this one were woven in China during the Art Deco period in order to satisfy the demand in the West for decorative rugs designed in the Art Deco taste. Here the Art De...

Hand-knotted in wool and originating in East Turkestan circa 1930-50, this 5x9 Vintage Samarkand Rug is among the most exciting new curations from Rug & Kilim’s collection of rare cl...

Mid-20th century with Oval Medallion Chinese yellow, lilac and green decorative area rug Size: 13'10" × 20'2" (421 × 614 cm). This circa 1930 vintage Chinese deco rug features a str...

1980s Vintage Needlepoint Carpet ( 7'10'' x 9'6''- 240 x 290 )

78979 Vintage Chinese Round Peking Pictorial Rug, 04'00 x 03'09. This exquisite hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese round Peking pictorial rug is a captivating example of traditional C...

Chinese Sinkiang Geometric Rug, Khotan Xinjiang Province (East Turkestan). A carpet of dyed wool pile on a cotton foundation, a mixed berry palette in hues of purple, salmon, red, an...

Chinese Nichols art deco scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 3' x 5'

Full pile large Chinese Art Deco rug plum border, blue field Measures: 10' x 19'1".

In 1924, Walter Nichols, a professional wool-grader based in Tientsin, North China, introduced the "Super Chinese" rug. American wool exporters in this town had begun to machine-spin their yarn around 1920, and it was this machine-spun yarn that earned the designation "super". Nichols rugs, and Tientsin rugs...

Very beautiful mid century Chinese rug with beautiful Chinese art deco design in a pink background with a beautiful floral design in pink, green, yellow, blue and purple , entirely h...

A fine-quality antique Tibetan throw-size pictorial rug. Would make for a great wall hanging too Measures: 2'5" x 5'

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a beige orange field, pink, orange, purple, green, yello...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Walter Nichols ( 11'2" x 15'4" - 340 x 467 )

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 9" x 12' 9", showcases a bold geometric composition inspired by traditional motifs. The central field features a striking in...

Little vintage Aubusson style embroidered rug with floral design and nice colors, wool.

This captivating piece is an antique Tibetan Takyab, a decorative and protective forehead ornament for pack animals that were integral to the Tibetan way of life. Crafted with specia...

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...

Pretty vintage Chinese rug with a design of birds and nice light colours, entirely and finely hand knotted with silk on silk foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and cr...

Nice mid century Chinese rug with beautiful Chinese design and nice colours with white, pink, blue, green and brown, entirely hand made by han...

Exquisite late 19th-century Chinese rug featuring a stunning Chinese design, adorned with a captivating blue field color. Meticulously hand-knotted with wool velvet on a cotton found...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 12'0" x 14'6".

77854 vintage Garden Rabbit Hooked rug with French Country Cottage style 02'05 x 04'00. Warm and welcoming, this vintage garden rabbit hooked rug sho...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a light purple field, orange, green, red , yellow and pu...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with mint green field with a basket filled with multi-colored peonies in the center.

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This piece has a purple frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This r...

77818 Vintage Floral Kilim Rug with French Victorian Style 04'02 x 06'00. Delicately feminine and beautifully traditional, this hand-woven wool vi...

Spectacular palace size Art Deco rug, circa 1920/1930's. The rug features a tan, or mustard, center field bordered in blue , then mustard again, it has a restrained floral motif thr...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 13'8" x 24' - 417 x 732 cm )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 10".

Pretty mid century Chinese Beijing rug with nice Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experienc...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted scatter wool rug with navy blue color field. This piece has multicolor hues adorned with a classic Chinese floral design. This rug m...

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...

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design ...

A 3rd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a dragon motif on a beige field Size: 4'4'' x 6'10''.  

Traditional Handwoven Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug. Size: 2' X 3'-9"

A room-size tradtional Chinese rug with a rare pumpkin color ground Measures: 9' x 11'6''.

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 9' 5" x 12' 10", is a stunning example of the region’s refined weaving tradition, skillfully merging historical symbolism with ...

A beautiful antique hand-knotted Chinese Art Deco large room size wool area rug China, Circa 1920s Gray field, with blue and gray border and nice floral design with a pagoda in the...

Beautiful antique Peking Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field and multi-color accents all-over traditional Chinese dragon design. This rug measures 3' x 8'.

Antique Chinese Peking Rug 8' 4" x 9' 10"

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful indigo background surrounded by a complementary border with a pink, violet and indigo floral pattern.

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a brown field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy and green frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'6"- 267 x 351 )