Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Handwoven in wool, this 6x9 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoys...

77449 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'03 x 09'09. Radiating an air of cultivated exclusivity, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug evokes the refined artistic legacy ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 7' x 11'8" - 213 x 356 )

Rare Antique Chinese Rug Pre-1900 Chinese Symbols 12x15 11'10" x 14'6" 361cm x 427cm "This is a rare pre-1900 Chinese high quality piece with rare Chinese symbols throughout. Th...

This antique Khotan rug has a deep indigo-blue field with an overall sandy-brown pomegranate and floral vine, in an outer broad sandy-brown border with cloud-motifs alternating with ...

1930s narrow Khotan runner in greens and pink Details rug no. r5936 size 2' 3" x 11' 6" (69 x 351 cm)

77231 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'09 x 11'06. Woven during a golden era of cross-cultural aesthetics, this one-of-a-kind hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a mast...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug 13 x 12, hand knotted wool with a dark blue field, tan frame and a multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic ...

The Older Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most other productions of Chinese goods, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 ) Chinese Art Deco Carpet, circa 1920 – 9' x 11'6" An exquisite Chinese Art Deco carpet from the 1920s, featuring a bold claret red field framed by a soft grey border. The composition includes asymmetrical floral sprays, blossoming branches, bamboo clusters, vases, lanterns, and a phoenix — each chosen for its symbolic meaning. Phoenix: a Chinese emblem of rebirth, grace, and renewal Bamboo: resilience, strength, and flexibility Flowers: prosperity, harmony, and natural beauty Lanterns and vases: abundance, peace, and illumination Executed in a vibrant palette of blues, yellows, purples, and greens, this piece reflects the fusion of tradition and modernism that defined the Art Deco movement in China. The open red ground creates a dramatic backdrop for the symbolic motifs, giving the design a modernist elegance while retaining cultural richness. Type: Chinese Art Deco Rug...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic Chinese floral design, circa 1920. This rug measures 9'...

78130 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Traditional Chinoiserie Style 08'03 x 09'08. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open medallion decorated with ...

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a steel-gray field with a coral-red vase at each end issuing dusty-pink pomegranate and angular floral and serrated leaf vine, enclosed wi...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a green field, red frame in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures 8' 10" x 11'5".  

Nice mid century Chinese peking rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome ...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a tone-on-tone gray field surrounded by a wide gray border, and indigo scholar's vases in opposing corners each potted with auspicious...

Stunning geometric antique Khotan rug in soft blue and caramel from the 1st quarter of the 20th century Measures: 7' x 13'5''.

A modern East Turkestan Khotan pictorial room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 4" x 14' 1"

Chinese - Art Deco Rug, Size: 6' x 8' 10"

77328 antique Chinese Art Deco oval rug with traditional chinoiserie style. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a plain neut...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'7" x 11' - 262 x 335 )

This 20th century Chinese carpet is unusual because it is an nearly square and it is monochromatic. The subtle sculpted border features a fretwork and bat pattern...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 8'' - 275 x 355 cm )

A central, five-clawed dragon (the symbol of both the forces of nature and the Chinese emperor), is surrounded by four other dragons, all floating on an indigo blue background. At bo...

79078 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 06'03 x 09'01. This exquisite one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug is a stunning representation of Chinese artistry and cultu...

Khotan rugs are hand woven in Sinkiang province in western China, also referred to as East Turkestan. They are often called Samarkand rugs after the central Asian city where they wer...

An early 20th-century East Turkestan Khotan Pictographic rug Measures: 5'11'' x 9'7''.

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 10' 0'' x 13' 4''.

This 6x9 antique Chinese Art Deco rug represents one of the most unique and rare, collectible designs of its provenance to join Rug & Kilim’s curation of the iconic movement—both an ...

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 6'4" x 9' - 193 x 274 )

A sweet early 20th century oval Chinese Art Deco rug with a peach central field surrounded by a teal and peach border overlaid with multi-co...

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 fluffy Chinese seating square was most probably woven by ethnic Hui Muslim weavers in the area of Ningxia in northern China for a Buddhist religious institution somewhere in eit...

A pair of matching Decorative Chinese Peking Fragment navy blue runners from the early 20th century. Measures: 2'2'' x 16'6'' & 2'6'' x 16'6''.

During the Art Deco period many designers commissioned their patterns to the city looms located in Tianjin through companies such as Nichols & Company. Some designs, such as this one...

This 9x12 kilim rug from our European collection marks a modern take on 18th century Aubusson flatweave styles among our principal’s favorite curations. Handwoven in wool, the warm r...

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 12' x 15'6" - 365 x 472 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Modernist Design (2'10'' x 5'9'' - 86 x 175)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'10" - 185 x 270 )

Beautiful late 19th century silk embroidery from China with nice design and red field wool foundation.

1920's Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" ) Paeonies everywhere, in the four corners overlapping pink field and celadon green border, in the larger central bouquet. Only one cloisonné vase in a corner. The pink is balanced top and bottom, but a larger plain area is on the left. One lotus blossom appears in the lower left flower bunch. An attractive almost antique...

This early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug is a refined example of East meets West design, with a quiet palette and rich symbolism. The field is a soft, elegant gray, framed by a n...

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...

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in ruby and burgundy shades. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original good condition. It has some floral accent with large peac...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 351 )

Chinese - Art Deco rug, measures: 8'9" x 11'4".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'3" x 11'8" - 282 x 356 )

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...

Antique Circa 1923 Taupy-Gray Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 8'10 X 11'2. As the term implies, true Chinese Deco carpets were woven in a s...

Handmade antique Chinese Dragon designed textile in silk. This tapestry is from the end of 19th century in original condition, it has some age discolorations. -condition: original...

Very rare antique Chinese Peking runner with a pictorial dragon motif found in field and border in two shades of predominant blues. The size on this piece is original which makes an ...

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 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. Whether placed in a living room, bedroom, or study, this rug offers a sophisticated nod to Chinese heritage with a fresh, decorative twist—ideal for collectors, designers, or anyone seeking a unique statement piece with historical elegance. 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...

Beautiful vintage Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field and red border with multicolored accents and all-over floral design. This rug measures 9' 0" x 11' 3"...

73471 Antique Chinese Peking Accent Rug with Neoclassical Chinoiserie Style 03'00 x 05'09. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features an open center medallion with a ...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 8'9" x 11' 6" - 295 x 350

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...

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

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a navy-blue field, tan frame in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 9'10" x 13'2".