Chinese and East Asian Rugs

77631 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco ...

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

The earliest records of a solar and lunar eclipse in ancient Chinese history date from 2165 – 1137 BC. The Moon is a symbol in Chinese philosophy and arts rather than simply a planet in traditional Chinese culture. From ancient myth Chang’e to Poets from Tang & Song dynasty, the Sun and the Moon together become a pair symbol of Yin & Yang philosophy. Studio HVN “Eclipse” rug...

There is a group of later Chinese carpets which are characterized by geometric, often abstract patterns that seem inspired by Western sensibilities. What is puzzling however is that most of these weavings have been sourced in recent years in China itself, where they have been used in households ever since they were made. Whatever its origin, the resulting pattern of coloured lozenges has an outstanding three dimensional quality, and can be compared to the most important objects of twentieth century design.

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 12'10" x 17' - 391 x 518 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7'9" x 9'6"- 235 x 290 cm )

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This Chinese rug has a navy-blue frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3'2'' X 4' - 96 X 146 )

This 9x12 kilim rug from our European selections marks a contemporary take on antique 18th century Aubusson flatweaves. Handwoven in fine quality wool, the comforting tones of creamy beige-brown, gold, soft blue & off white play beautifully with florals & cartouches in fine neoclassical Aubusson...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 9'' x 11' 6'' - 266 x 350 cm )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Measures 8' 0''x 9' 6''.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11' x 13'6'' - 335 x 412 )

Early 19th Century Central Asian Chinese Khotan Silk Carpet 11'2'' x 11'4'' - 340 x 345

78131 Distressed Antique Chinese peking rug with Rustic Chinoiserie Style 12'02 x 18'02. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open medallion decorated...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo field surrounded by a wide dark cranberry and a thin indigo border. Myriad auspicious flowers including peonies...

This floor mat once occupied a tribal long house of the Dayak Tribe of Borneo. It is made from woven dyed and natural coloured rattan fibres & features diagonal black fibres. Dim...

Large Vintage Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 17'10" × 20'10" (543 × 635 cm) This vintage Chinese area rug dates back to circa 1930 and is a rep...

This hand-woven, antique wool Turkestan Rug has a faded aubergine field with hooked floral motifs, open stylized flowerheads, cloud motifs and vases arou...

Pillow made from an early 20th century Chinese blue Peking rug. Measures: 20'' x 20''.

Antique Chinese - Peking rug , Size: 11' 8'' x15' 5''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'8'' x 14' - 295 x 425 )

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

Antique Khotan rug, Country of Origin: East Turkestan, Circa date: 1880. Size: 4 ft 10 in x 9 ft (1.47 m x 2.74 m)

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug in bright orange color. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original condition, it has some signs of age. -Condition: origial, some si...

Connoting the Tudor style rugs of the 18th century, a 5x10 hand-knotted piece making way to our European collection. The rendering flourishes in gorgeo...

Stunning large Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful floral design with a silver field and plum border. Room size formats are usually found...

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

1920s Oval Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5'2" x 7'8" - 157 x 233 cm )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'8'' - 279 x 356 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Measures: 8' 9''x11' 5''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4'2" x 7' - 127 x 213 ) A salmon field is centered by a bold Shou (good luck) medallion within a wreath of bats and ensuite bat corners. A narrow pla...

Our MYSTIQUE COLLECTION impresses with a select palette of timeless colors and fine, carefully selected material. These fine pieces of contemporary art are hand-knotted by skilled ar...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4' x 6' 9'' - 122 x 206 cm )

Beautiful antique Sarouk Persian hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This Persian rug has a designed frame and blue, green, and brown accents in a gorgeous all-over traditional f...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very large country house, vintage Chinese design rug with lovely Floral aqua and pink tones I have a collecti...

19th Century Pair of Chinese Silk Pictorial Kesi Textile ( 9" x 1' - 23 x 31 )

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco runner with a central medallion depicting a vase potted with a flowering lotus, and flowering trees on either end, and all set abasing a gray f...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a wide open solid field surrounded by a baroque-style floral border, all woven in soft pastel blues, reds, yellows, and greens.

Very beautiful Manila embroidery with a Chinese style and beautiful floral design, entirely hand embroidered with silk on silk foundation.  

78022 vintage Chinese Floral Kilim rug with English Country Cottage style 04'01 x 06'02. Cleverly composed and distinctively well-balanced, this hand-woven wool vintage Chinse floral...

Antique Chinese peking rug, Size: 2' 6'' x 4' 9''.

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Measures: 9' 0''x 11'6''.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 9" Chinese Rugs & Carpet: 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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 11' 10'' x 14' 6'' - 360 x 442 cm )

Are you on the lookout for a new carpet to enhance your living room or bedroom? This Beautiful rug could make the perfect accessory. This elegant wool needlepoint is a classic example of a modern Portuguese style rug woven by hand in China in the early 21st century. The design has been delicately woven with an asymmetrical floral pattern made up of brown, pink, green and mustard accents on a subtle cream background. The border has been decorated with a repeating pattern design and is finished with a fringed edge. Constructed with only the best locally sourced materials with traditional techniques this fine wool rug is sure to last for generations. The fine materials used include hand-spun wool and cotton that have been organically dyed with vegetable dyeing techniques. This rug is in excellent condition. Ready for use in any home or office environment. Portuguese needlepoint rug traditional wool floral rugs...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug ( 2'8'' x 6' - 81 x 183 )

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

Beautiful small square Scatter size antique Chinese rug, Origin: China, circa 1900. Size: 1 ft 9 in x 2 ft (0.53 m x 0.61 m).  

An antique East Turkestan Khotan accent rug in square format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 7' 0" x 8' 7".

Fine Art Deco period Chinese rug with a gold yellow base, border, vegetal and dragon. Hand- knocked wool on a cotton base. Art Deco period around 1930.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'1'' x 11'8'' - 277 x 356 )

This contemporary 11x16 flat weave is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s European collection. Inspired by 18th century Aubusson flat weaves, which is a favorite style and period of R...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4'10" x 5'2" - 147 x 158 )

Antique art deco Chinese/ Manderin carpet, signed , fine shinny Manchester wool, full soft pile with great colors. This wonderful Art Deco carpet was made in China, circa 1910s or 1...

Belonging to Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics collection, an intricate Sultanabad style rug taking after neoclassical Persian sensibilities. The subtle floral medallion pattern plays beautifully with uniquely soft tones of beige & brown cocooned in light blue borders seldom seen in the Sultanabad lineage. Hand-knotted in all wool, a lavish 10x14 carpet...

Marking an exquisite take on an antique Tabriz Persian rug style of the late 19th century is a 9x12 all wool rug from our Modern Classics collection. The hand-knotted creation reads ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 7" - 275 x 353 cm)

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet with Foo Dogs 石獅 ( 12' 6" x 18' 2" - 380 x 555)