Chinese Art Deco 1732

This beautiful Art Deco-style Chinese rug from the second quarter of the 20th century features a soft pale pink and apricot-colored field of warm, luminous beauty, paired with a striking navy and French blue lattice border of great graphic authority. Inspired by the elegant aesthetics of 18th and 19th century Ningxia carpets, the design showcases a classic lotus and lattice motif that blends the ancient symbolic vocabulary of Chinese art with the clean, stylized aesthetic of the Art Deco period.

The lotus — one of the most beloved symbols in both Buddhist and Chinese Confucian culture, representing purity, renewal, and spiritual aspiration — appears here transformed into a motif of Art Deco elegance, its organic forms disciplined into geometric harmony. The harmonious palette of blue and olive green deepens the visual interest while the gentle apricot field radiates warmth. Chinese Art Deco rugs, produced primarily in the 1920s and 1930s for the Western export market, represent one of the most distinctive fusions of Eastern and Western aesthetic sensibilities in the history of textile art. Drawing on the clean lines, bold geometry, and refined simplicity of the Western Art Deco movement while incorporating the ancient symbolic vocabulary of Chinese art — dragons, cranes, pagodas, lotus flowers, and auspicious emblems — these rugs created a design language entirely their own that continues to be admired and collected worldwide.

Dimensions: 8' 2" x 11'

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

SKU: 1732