Chinese Art Deco 2058

A beautiful mid-20th century Art Deco Chinese rug featuring a serene French blue background of calm, sky-like depth, accented by a soft pale pink and blue border. Inspired by the elegant patterns of 18th and 19th century Ningxia carpets, the rug showcases a refined lattice and lotus floral design that blends the ancient Chinese symbolic vocabulary with the clean, stylized aesthetic of the Art Deco period.

The lotus — rising from muddy water to bloom in perfect purity above the surface — is one of the most beloved symbols in both Buddhist and Chinese Confucian culture, representing spiritual aspiration, renewal, and the possibility of beauty emerging from difficult circumstances. Here it is transformed into a motif of Art Deco elegance, its organic forms disciplined into the geometric harmony of mid-century design. 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: 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

SKU: 2058