East Asian Rugs and Carpets

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...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 298 )

A 21st century East Turkestan Modern room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 7"

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a gorgeous sea-foam green field surrounded by a wide rust orange border. A potted peony lives in one corner while a gnarly tw...

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

A whimsical early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a peaceful garden landscape depicting a flowering tree branch with a lantern hanging over the corner of a pond with blossomin...

77230 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'00 x 11'04. Bathed in the serene glow of antiquity, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug captures the poetic essence of China’s Four...

Exquisite late 19th-century Chinese rug featuring a stunning Chinese design, adorned with a captivating blue field color. Meticulously hand-knotted with wool velvet on a cotton found...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'10" x 92 x 147 cm )

Chinese Sinkiang Geometric Rug, Khotan Xinjiang Province (East Turkestan). A carpet of dyed wool pile on a cotton foundation, a mixed berry palette in hues of purple, salmon, red, an...

Mid-20th Century Tibetan Khaden Wool Rug with Central Medallion and Cloud Spandrels This is more than just a beautiful rug; it's a piece of history, representing the end of a thousa...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Dragon Carpet ( 5'7" x 8'7" - 170 x 262 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7'' - 270 x 353 cm )

Beautiful Modern Art & Crafts style Tibetan hand knotted wool rug with a Botanical floral design on a beige field. Accents of brown, blue, and peach throughout the piece. This rug...

Beautiful antique Peking Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field and multi-color accents all-over traditional Chinese dragon design. This rug measures 3'1" x 7'10".

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

Beautiful Antique Chinese Art Deco rug hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This Chinese rug has orange and green accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese dragon art...

77260 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'02 x 11'07. An embodiment of timeless Chinese artistry and imperial refinement, this hand-knotted wool antique Peking rug captures the serene har...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 2' 6" x 4' 3"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3'1" x 5'10" - 94 x 178 )

A superb example of Art Deco weaving originating from China for the Western market. Finely knotted with silky wool with a floppy yet sturdy handle, a characteristic of the Fette-Li c...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 8'0"x 9'8"

Handwoven recreation of the Classic French flat-weave Aubusson rugs that have been found in the finest homes and palaces since the late 17th century. Size: 10'11'' x 16'4''.

77587, vintage Chinese Baotou Vase Pictorial rug with Chinese Chippendale style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese Baotou pictorial rug features an abrashed tan field showcasing different types of cloisonné vases sprouting with stylized florals resting on pedestals. The main border, which features repeated motifs of diamonds containing stylized Ruyi clouds with rosette centers, echoes the balance of geometric forms and floral touches used throughout the piece. It would be perfect for a small space, kitchen, reading nook, master bathroom, grand foyer, designer entry, study, studio, den, walk-in closet, stair landing, alcove, mudroom, entryway, bedroom, private library, private chambers, living room, front room, wine cellar, conservatory, drawing room, trophy room, game room, music room, listening room, or hotel lobby. It would also make a lovely accent next to a buffet in a dining room or behind the sofa table in the living room. Iconic in its styling, this antique Chinese Baotou rug...

76872 Vintage Gold Tibetan Area Rug, 09’01 x 12’00. Emanating understated luxury and meditative calm, this hand-knotted wool vintage Tibetan rug is a ...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 8' 0'' x9' 8''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 10' x 15'5"

An exquisite early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a rusty orange central field surrounded by a wide sage green border. Myriad auspicious flowers like chrysanthemums, peonies ...

Handwoven in wool, this 8x11 contemporary rug by Rug & Kilim is inspired by antique Tudor rugs, flatweaves and tapestries—a new unveiling from the European rug collection. On the D...

77586, antique Chinese Baotou Scholar’s rug with Confucian Pictorial Design. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Baotou rug features a pi...

Antique European needlepoint rug, Size: 4'0"x6'0".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" x 274 x 351 )

Sumak (also spelled Soumakh, Sumak, Sumac, or Soumac) is a tapestry technique of weaving strong and decorative textiles used as rugs and domestic bags. Baks used for bedding are know...

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a Tan field. This Khotan rug has blue and brown accents in an all-over geometric floral design. This rug measures 4'10" x 6'10...

Beautiful modern Tibetan hand knotted wool rug with the tan field. This rug has accents of beige in a gorgeous all-over abstract expressionist design. This rug measures: 9' x 12'.

Antique Chinese - Peking Rug Size: 9' 4''x11' 6''

This is an antique Tibetan horse cover woven during the last quarter of the 19th century circa 1880 - 1900 and measures 107 x 70CM in size. Its field is designed with a single large-scale Lotus flower with protruding vines set on a black background color which creates color contrast against the pastel motifs. the border is designed with different flower motifs surrounded by multicolored geometric designs. This unique piece has been retained in excellent condition making it a true collector item that would fit in any tribal or Asian collection.

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, size: 6' 8'' x7' 4''.

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field. This Chinese rug has a red frame and multicolor accents layout in a gorgeous Chinese floral design. ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 13' - 305 x 396 )

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

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 8" x 11' 8", beautifully showcases the refined aesthetic of traditional Khotan weaving. The design features an elegant compo...

A beautiful vintage Chinese silk rug with a large central floral medallion amidst a field of large-scale flowers all woven in light and dark ...

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

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a gray field. This Chinese rug has pink, yellow, green, and blue accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, Size: ( 10'6" x 12'6" - 320 x 380 cm ) Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, 10'6" x 12'6" An elegant early 20th century Chinese Peking...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'2" x 9'8" - 248 x 295 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 12'0" x 14'6".

Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation. Circa 2000 Dimensions: 11'7" x 13'8" Origin: Tibet Condition: Excellent with minor stain Field color: light-gold ...

Handwoven in wool, this 8x11 contemporary rug by Rug & Kilim is inspired by antique Tudor rugs, flatweaves and tapestries—a new unveiling from the European rug collection. On the D...

This border-less trompe l’oeil rug displays a soft red scroll rolled back in one corner to revel a scroll patterned underside and an ivory triangle beneath. The rug has a three dimen...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7' 10'' x 9' 7'' - 239 x 292 cm)

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 6'2" x 9'9" - 188 x 297 )

1920s Purple Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 14' x 15'4" - 426 x 467 cm )   

An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4" 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...

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 9' 1" x 11' 11", showcases a refined blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary elegance. The design features an open ...

Made with hand-knotted wool in China circa 1960-1970, this 5x7 vintage dragon rug is from a rare and exciting new curation of pictorials in Rug & Kilim’s classics. On the Design: ...

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