FRANCE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV/XVI AUBUSSON PILE CARPET
FRANCE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Having a central rosette with overlapping floral garlands on the sand field with floral bouquets and enlarged floral urns at each corner with rose acanthus leaves within a shaded golder outer border, rewoven areas on all four sides
Approximately 19 ft. 6 in. x 20 ft. 7 in. (594 cm. x 627 cm.)

Provenance

Galerie Persane, Paris.
Private Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 27 April 2000, lot 171.

Lot Essay

Carpet weaving began in the Aubusson workshops during the reign of Louis XV, but it was his successor Louis XVI who commissioned many more carpets from the Aubusson workshops. Stylistically, this carpet shows design elements popular during both reigns and could have been woven during either period. However, the overabundance of floral garlands and flowering baskets is very much the taste of Louis XVI's queen, Marie-Antoinette. For a similar Aubusson carpet fragment, circa 1780, now in the James A. de Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, please see Sherrill, S., Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America, New York, 1996, plate 111.

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