Mid-20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

The wine-brown field is diagonally wide open and guided by asymmetric rose, peony and lotus corners bin bright polychromy. The dark pink border has a lace-like character with barbed ...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a wide teal border. Multi-colored potted peonies and cherry blossoms overlay the border, and a butterf...

Mid 20th Century Silk & Gold Thread Chinese Embroidery 2' x 2'8" - 60 x 80

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 7" x 11' 4" - 260 x 345 cm ) Antique Art Deco Chinese Floral Green 1935 Rug, Circa Date: 1935. This exceptional piece captures the transitional el...

1940s Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 8' x 10' - 245 x 305 ) Antique Chinese - Tibetan Knotted Rug, Circa Date: 1940s. This exceptional piece from the mid-20th century showcases the dramat...

An antique East Turkestan carpet from the second quarter of the 20th century.

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...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 9' x 12'

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 8'8" x 14'8".

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

An exceptional Chinese Art Deco carpet showcasing one of the most iconic and sought-after designs of the early 20th century. A brilliant sapphire blue field serves as the backdrop fo...

Chinese Art Deco Mat scatter size rug Measure: 2'11'' x 4'10''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Fuschia color 8' 9'' x 11' 2''

Vintage handmade Uzbek Bukhara praying mat in original good condition. The rug is from the end of 20th century. -condition: origial good, -circa: 1960s, -size: 1' x 1' (31c...

The cerulean blue field displays four writhing semi-profile scaly corner dragons and a matching central creature, full-face, above layered and pointed mountains at the cardinal point...

Vintage Art Nouveau Rug Silk Chinese Rug Art Deco Red " High quality vintage piece that can be used on the floor or as a tapestry. Rare geomet...

a rare wide large runner size Tibetan Dragon Pillar Rug . Background color is yellow Measures: 4'5'' x 17 '

Beautiful mid-20th century Art Deco Chinese rug features a serene French blue background, accented by a soft pale pink and blue border. Inspired by the elegant patterns of 18th–19th century Ningxia carpets, the rug showcases a refined lattice and lotus floral design, blending traditional Chinese symbolism with the clean, stylized aesthetic of the Art Deco period. The border’s intricate detailing and harmonious palette—featuring shades of gold, gray, and blue—add depth and visual interest while maintaining a gentle, balanced look. The French blue field provides a calming foundation, making this rug a versatile piece for both classic and contemporary spaces. Dimensions: 5’ 8” x 8’ 1” Date of Manufacture: 2nd 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 Gallery, SKU: 2058 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...

This fine needlepoint features a fantastic river scene with women washing clothes and a young girl dipping her toes. The detail in this handwoven needlepoint is intricate and makes the perfect accent accessory. Woven with hand-spun wool which has been organically dyed with vegetable dyeing techniques. Suitable for use as a wall hanging or as a rug. Unique and sophisticated this piece is sure to uplift any home interiors. Handmade rugs needlepoint carpet tapestry wall hanging rug...

An outstanding 1930s Chinese Art Deco rug with a magenta field hosting an asymmetrical composition of flowers. At the base, a gold vase decorated with dark scrolls sits on a small st...

This is an Antique Chinese art deco rug made by Nichols in the 1930s. The design color and dye is excellent as you can see in the photos. The fill color is a magnificent light green ...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 14' - 305 x 427 )

Step into a world of rare elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Rug, a true marvel from the 1950s that carries the allure of a bygone era. Crafted with precision in China, this rug is...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' 4" x 11' 8" - 285 x 355 cm ) Antique Chinese Art Deco Allover Geometric Hand Knotted Pile Rug, Country of Origin: China, Circa Date: 1930s. This e...

1930s Large Vintage Chinese Deco Rug with Bamboo Motif in Soft Beige and Green Size: 17'10" × 20'10" (543 × 635 cm) This large vintage Chinese Deco rug from the 1930s is a striking y...

This rare and unusual carpet, which is perhaps more reminiscent of a contemporary painting than a weaving, is decorated with a 'salt and pepper' effect through the miscellany of red ...

Vintage Chinese Deco Rug with Emerald Green Field and Geometric Medallion Size: 8'0" × 15'5" (243 × 469 cm) This vintage Chinese Deco rug from circa 1945 is a stunning embodiment of ...

The borderless rich red field displays baskets and porcelain vases overflowing with flowers in the corners and a pointed elliptical wreath with still more floral extrusions toward th...

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...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'2" x 10'2"- 250 x 310 cm) Antique Chinese - Art Deco Chinese Yellow 1930s Rug, Circa Date: 1930s. This exceptional piece represents the zenith of 1...

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 ...

This captivating vintage Chinese Art Deco rug, dating back to the 1940s, is a remarkable example of East-meets-West modernism, blending traditional Chinese motifs with the streamline...

An amazing early 20th century Central Asian Khotan rug with a wonderful burnt red or orange abrash background with a large central pale indigo medallion surrounded by a field of tree...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 3'0" x 5'4". Antique Chinese - Art Deco Blue 1930s Rug, Circa Date: 1930s. This exceptional example of Art Deco design represents the pinnacle of...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5'2" x 7'4" - 158 x 224 ) Antique Art Deco Small Scatter Size Wool Chocolate Rug, Circa Date: 1930s. This striking example of early 20th-century desi...

The painterly effect obtained by mixing varying proportions of ivory and indigo wool is peculiar to this family of northern Chinese weavings. As most of them were sourced directly in...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with multi-color and 9' 0” x 11' 8” size.

This masterfully knotted early 20th century Samarkand carpet depicts a floral pattern at its center, framed by an ornate geometric border. Sometimes referred to as khotan carpets, Samarkand rugs are all from an area in central Asia once called East Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang province, China. Hand-woven with vegetable-dyed wool, this antique carpet has a balanced composition and a beautiful, soft palette of oranges, pinks, and browns. From the collection of Frances and Gary Comer.

1930s Minimalist Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'6" x 11'3" - 260 x 345 cm ) The open, border-less red field of this northeastern Chinese Art Deco carpet has diagonally opposed, en suit...

A gorgeous 1930s Chinese Art Deco rug with a purple field decorated with an asymmetrical arrangement of scholar's motifs. The pictorial composition features a hanging vase with ornat...

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating from China circa 1940-1950, this is a 10x11 rare collectible from the 1920s Chinoiserie style period pieces, and one of our new favorite c...

An exceptional Chinese Art Deco carpet distinguished by its dramatic color palette and elegant asymmetrical composition. A luminous fuchsia field is framed by a richly saturated sapp...

This carpet is hand knotted in China. Known as mainland Chinese these carpets were made with high quality wool and all organic dyes, which makes them age really well and develop a ni...

This vintage Chinese pictorial area rug captures a striking and dynamic moment: a horseback rider mid-action, skillfully swinging a rope loop to capture a wild horse in motion. The s...

Outstanding silk vintage Chinese Art Deco with a beautiful soft colorway and chic design, showcasing refined artistry and elegant composition, dating to circa 1960. A unique decorati...

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 3" 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 Geometric Chinese Rug Size: 11'4" × 17'7" (345 × 535 cm) The Antique Chinese Rug dated around 1930, is a stunning example of geometric design. The rug features a grid of smal...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 7".

Chinese Art Deco Rug with Dramatic Curvilinear Motif in Coral and Black Size: 5'7" × 7'8" (170 × 233 cm) A striking example of mid-20th-century Chinese Art Deco design, this vintage ...

This captivating vintage Chinese Art Deco carpet, dating back to the 1940s, is a remarkable example of East-meets-West modernism, blending traditional Chinese motifs with the streaml...

A striking example of early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco design, this handwoven wool carpet from the 1930s effortlessly blends modernist aesthetics with traditional craftsmanship. T...

79454 Vintage Chinese Pictorial Rug, 09'11 x 07'11. This hand knotted wool vintage Chinese pictorial rug is a ceremonial vision drawn from the refined visual language of classical Ch...

Vintage Chinese Art Deco Runner (Size Adjusted) Size: 3'7" × 24'8" (109 × 751 cm) Color: Beige, Blue Origin: China Style: Floral, Oriental This elegant vintage Chinese Art Deco runne...

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Saddle Cover ( 2'6" x 4'2" - 76 x 127 ) Antique Chinese Small Scatter Size Wool Coral Rug, Circa Date: 1930s. This exceptional textile presents a ...

One of a Kind! Excellent condition MATERIALS: 100% Wool All Hand Made DIMENSION: 6x8.3 FREE SHIPPING TO USA CUSTOMERS WASH/CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Hand Wash or Professional cleaning

Vintage Silk Chinese Runner 2’4’ X 10’11”. A generic term referring to any carpets made within the confines of the Middle Kingdom including: Ningxia (north central China), Peking (wo...

Deco carpet China, 1940s. Wool. Hand knotted. Measures: 348 x 268 cm. 137 x 105.5 in. Please note: Prices do not include VAT. VAT may be applied depending on the ship-to location. ...

Antique are deco Chinese rug, kings and dynasty, incredible beauty. This wonderful Art Deco carpet was made in China, circa 1910's or 1920's. Walter Nichols ...

This is an authentic handmade rug. It was made in China around the 1940s. The overall color pallet is ivory over. The materials are wool pile with cotton foundation. The colors are f...

This Semi Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, measuring 5' x 7'9", reflects the refined elegance of early 20th-century decorative artistry. Its deep blue field provides a dramatic backdrop...