Mid-20th Century Chinese and East Asian Rugs

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 cm ) with a fuchsia color background The expansive, velvety wool field is rendered in a magnificent, rich tone that oscillates...

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...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Floral green background. 9' x 11'10" - 275 x 360 Colorful floral chains adorn the corners of a borderless green field.

A beautiful Pao-Tao rug, handwoven in China circa 1940 with a single medallion design on a navy blue field and secondary colours of ivory, light blue and reds. Size: 1.64m x 0.96m (5...

Vintage Art Nouveau Flat Woven Kilim Rug 12x18 Large Oversized Rug 12' x 18'2" 12x18 366cm x 554cm "Very cool vintage European Art Nouveau Kilim with a rare geometric overall patter...

These mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco pair rug, measuring 2' 5" x 4' 7" - 2' 5" x 4' 7", features a refined and elegant bamboo motif set against a soft beige field. Delicately ren...

A fabulous 1930’s Tibetan rug with a simple cloudband design on an open red field surrounded by a red and gold key border. Lovely wool quality and great colours! Size: 2.11m x 1.24m ...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful mint-green field with a singular large central floral medallion in the center with multi-colored peonies, chrysan...

1930s Chiense Animal Pictorial small Rug Details rug no. j3525 size 2' 7" x 4' 11" (79 x 150 cm)

1920 Antique Tribal Kelim Flatwoven KilimGeometric 10x16 10'2" x 15'6" 310cm x 472cm "Very cool antique tribal Kilim with a rare geometric overall pattern and fantastic, color pale...

This stunning antique Peking Chinese hand-knotted wool rug features a rich navy blue field adorned with vibrant yellow accents showcasing traditional Chinese dragon designs. This ru...

1930s Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 8' x 10'10" - 245 330 )

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...

a mid-20th-century Feminine Color Tibetan Rug Details rug no. j4331 size 2' 8" x 4' 11" (81 x 150 cm) rug type Tibetan

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...

Handmade Vintage Chinese Silk Shawl: Design and Colors: This square-shaped shawl is a testament to Chinese craftsmanship. The dominant color is a rich black, creating a dramatic bac...

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 ...

Chinese Ninghsia style “Hundred Antiques” carpet circa 1960. Measures 9.ft.6in. x 6ft. (290cm. x 183cm.) A central medallion surrounded by cult...

A 2ndquarter of the 20th-century highly decorative Tibetan rug with fishes floating around a floral motif on a dark ground color. Size: 2'10'' x 4'9''.

Scatter size Pictorial Motif Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measure: 3'5'' x 5'6''.

Nice thick pile Chinese wool rug having a two tone green color way, in the style of Nichols. This rug is in very fine, original condition, clean and ready to use. We believe it is vi...

One of a kind vintage Turkish Anatolian in emerald green and tiny specs of black. Measures: 4'11" x 6'9".

Pretty vintage Chinese Beijing rug with a nice decorative and art deco style design of the nature with stylized tree, birds, flowers, and nice colours with a faded orange background ...

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...

Chinese Art Deco Mat scatter-size rug from the 1940s in neutral colors Measure: 2' x 4'.

A beautiful hand made vintage Chinese sculpted wool area rug China, Mid-20th Century Nice floral design, with predominant colors in light green, peach,...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures:

Mid century Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese design and beautiful colors with blue and white, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience ...

Enchanting Large room size 20th-century Chinese Art Deco carpet with a spacious floral design on a Burgundy Field Measures: 9'10'' x 13'5''.

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 ...

A full pile 20th century Chinese rug with 4 dragons floating on a navy blue ground. Measures: 4'1" x 6'1".     

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 3' 10".

One of a kind Khotan rug with a soft pink field consisting of a flower vase motif and a soft green border.

79231 Vintage Chinese Aubusson Tapestry, 08'07 x 09'07. Woven in homage to the allegorical splendor of 18th-century France, this handwoven wool vintage Chinese Aubusson tapestry is a...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' X 13' 9" - 355 X 420 )

Presenting an enchanting mid-century Chinese rug featuring a captivating Chinese Art Deco design. The rug boasts a harmonious blend of colors, including a mesmerizing green field, al...

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...

A colorful East Turkestan Khotan rug from the early 20th century Measures: 4'4" x 9'1'' Khotan, an ancient Buddhist kingdom, was located on a branch of the famous Silk Road in Ea...

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug in bright red colour and dragon design. The rug is from the middle of 20th century in orignal good condition. -condition: original good, ...

Handmade vintage Uzbek Bukhara runner in original condition, it has some age wear. The rug made in soft wool in the middle of 20th century. -condition: original, some signs of age,...

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

Nice mid century Chinese silk embroidery with beautiful design with two dragons and nice colours with a red background, entirely hand embroidered with silk and metal on silk foundati...

Discover the elegance of this exquisite mid-century Chinese Beijing rug featuring a stunning Chinese design in vibrant blue, brown, and touches of green on a luxurious beige backgrou...

Beautiful Chinese Art Deco rug with nice design and white field color, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Handmade vintage Turkish Sivas rug in geometric design. The rug is in original condition, from the middle of 20th century. The rug has some age discolorations. -condition: original,...

A fabulous 1930’s Tibetan rug with a simple cloudband design on an open red field surrounded by a red and gold key border. Lovely wool quality and great colours! Size: 2.12m x 1.24m ...

Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century feauturing a bright orange field Measures: 3'2'' x 5'6''.

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 2' 3" x 4' 6", showcases a minimalist yet sophisticated design. Featuring a solid blue field with subtle tonal variations, the r...

It does not come with an insert but a bag made to the size to accommodate insert materials. Cotton fabric in the back. Zipper closure. Dry cleaning is recommended.

Nice mid century Chinese peking rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco and stylized floral design and nice colors, with a nice navy blue background, pink, sky blue, brown green and whit...

A mid-20th-century room-size Chinese rug , beige field, green accent tones. pops of pink pop upas well Measures: 7'11'' x 10'1''.

Very beautiful mid century Chinese rug with beautiful Chinese art deco design in a yellow background with a beautiful floral medallion and some flowers around it in pink, red, gold a...

early 20th century blue chinese peking rug with a deer and flying bird rug no. j3395 size 4' 10" x 6' 2" (147 x 188 cm)

mid 20th Century East Turkestan Asian Samarkand Rug rug no. j2469 size 4' 10" x 9' 7" (147 x 292 cm) Samarkand rugs from east turkestan are typically found in a long and relativel...

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug in beige, green and red colors. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original good condition. This rug has classic floral design with the ...

A mid20th-century Chinese Peking carpet with an animal motif in white and blue circa 1950, measures: 3'1' x 5'8".

Nice vintage rug from Tibet, with a beautiful antique Chinese design, and nice colours with a navy blue background, blue, red, green, brown and yellow, entirely hand knotted with woo...

Scatter size Chinese peking rug in blue and white from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 2'2" x 4'1".

Vintage Bessarabian Kilim Rug Handwoven rug Tribal Geometric Overall 5'9" x 8'8" 175cm x 264cm "Very cool vintage Bessarabian Kilim with a rare geometric overall pattern and fanta...

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