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1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 10'2" - 245 x 310 )

An antique Chinese Mongolian carpet from the early 20th century. Four columns of ivory stars of two distinct sizes decorate the grey-beige field which is framed by a cerulean blue bo...

This beautiful, small antique Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-knotted from high-quality wool. Its soft pink background is decorated with a vibrant, multicolored floral pattern elegantly...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 8' 9" x 11' 4"

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Carpet 5'2" x 8' - 158 x 244

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 264 x 345 )

Mid-18th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 13'10" - 411 x 422 )

This vintage hand-knotted Chinese Art Deco rug features a striking design with four dragons in each corner, set against a soft ivory or straw-colored field and framed by a rich dark blue border. The rug’s field is adorned with beautifully detailed scenes of the countryside and mountains, including pagodas, birds, rivers, and traditional Chinese symbols of prosperity and good fortune. Evoking the harmony and balance of classic Chinese landscapes, this Art Deco rug blends symbolic storytelling with timeless design. The bold dragon motifs symbolize strength and protection, while the natural elements bring a sense of peace and well-being. In overall good condition, this piece is both a functional floor covering and a beautiful work of art for the floor display and ideal for elegant interiors. Dimensions: 9’ 2” x 11’ 5” 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 1688 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, Nichols Deco Rugs, Chinese Art Deco Nichols, Nichols Art Deco Carpet, Chinese Floral Rugs, Chinese Peking Rugs, Peking Carpets, Antique Chinese Peking Carpets, Antique Peking Rug, Antique Peking Carpet, Chinese Rug Dragon, Peking Chinese, Chinese Pagoda Rug, Vintage China Rugs...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Dragon Carpet ( 6'3" x 9'3" - 191 x 282 )

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

1920s Chinese Art Debackground measuring 9' x 11'9" Green background with yellow border.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' x 11' 8"

1930s Square Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 12' - 355 x 365 cm )

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

Premium ultra soft 1/4" pile with non-slip padded backing. 4' x 6' New Origin: China Field Color: Burnt-Orange Border Color: Blue Accent Colors: Blue, Ivory, Black, Yellow Tu...

A monumental early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with several floral cluster medallions and vases potted with chrysanthemums and prunus blossoms set against a fuchsia covered in ...

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 handsome early 20th century Central Asian Khotan rug with three circular medallions in the center amidst a field of stylized flowers and trees-of-life surrounded by a border contai...

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

A stunning late 19th century Chinese Peking rug with a champagne colored field covered with pattern of auspicious flowers, bats, and scholar's objects scattered around a central phoe...

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

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

1920s Round Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 3' - 92 x 92 cm )

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 , ...

A bold early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a wonderful central indigo field surrounded by an inner thin gold strip, a wide fuchsia stripe and a thin outer indigo stripe border. Two ducks are playing in the water of the central indigo field, while flowering peony and cherry blossom branches...

A modern Turkish tantric accent rug from the 21st century with a pictorial design of a flayed man over a black field. Original versions were employed by ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 3'8" x 9'6" - 112 x 290 )

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

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese pictorial Art Deco rug featuring a scholar's pavilion perched on an outcropping in a garden landscape with a pond in the foreground, a bridge w...

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

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 ...

Rug Number 26410 Size 9' 10" X 14' 3" Design Aubusson Collection Flat Weaves Material Wool Texture Flat Weave Origin China Age New

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Carpets ( 3' x 4'10" -90 x 148 )

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Threads Carpet with Inscription " For Use In The Royal Aurora Hall " 4'3" x 6'3" - 130 x 191

This Tiger rug embodies a traditional and versatile pattern, both contemporary and timelessly classic. Shown in gold and indigo, colored with vegetable dyes. Joseph Carini was inspir...

Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Atelier Dating From 1920s 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 cm

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Oval Carpet ( 4' x 6'10" - 122 x 208 )

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...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 8'10" x 11'8".

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"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'8" - 188 x 264 )

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

Hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960 - 1970, this 5x8 vintage Müren Art Deco rug drawn on primitivist tribal and Scandinavian Rya styles in its big colorful l...

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

Ningxia in Northern China provided Tibetan monasteries with large numbers of pillar carpets with wraparound dragons soaring above mountains and waves, us...

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

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

The semi-open burgundy field displays a large exuberantly flowering paeony plant at one end, with attendant vases and flowering stems. Matching floral bouquets ornament the other two...

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

In the 1930s, Shanghai, China was swept up in the Art Deco design movement. Design, architecture, art, fashion, and furniture were all influenced by this modern movement that permeated every part of life in the bustling, vibrant city. Taking months or even years to create, this Chinese Art Deco area...

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

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1860-1870, this 12×17 antique Mongolian rug features traditional designs and geometric borders, in brown, silver and black hues. On the Design: Admirer...

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

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug, in an oblong oval shape, handmade during the mid-20th century with a floral pattern over a magenta-red field and goldenrod yellow border. Me...

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...

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...

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