CARPETS
AN AUBUSSON CARPET
FRANCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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AN AUBUSSON CARPET
France, late 19th Century
The ivory field with a scrolling acanthus leaf vine issuing rosettes entwined with floral wreaths, floral vases and a harp with a laurel wreath at each end around a central light camel-brown square panel containing scrolling and flowering arabesques, around an ivory laurel wreath roundel of scrolling floral acanthus leaves, vines and a central leafy rosette, in a shaded-red laurel leaf and beaded frame border, burgundy broad outer stripe, backed, negligible staining
13ft. 3in. x 11ft. 6in. (403cm. x 350cm.)
France, late 19th Century
The ivory field with a scrolling acanthus leaf vine issuing rosettes entwined with floral wreaths, floral vases and a harp with a laurel wreath at each end around a central light camel-brown square panel containing scrolling and flowering arabesques, around an ivory laurel wreath roundel of scrolling floral acanthus leaves, vines and a central leafy rosette, in a shaded-red laurel leaf and beaded frame border, burgundy broad outer stripe, backed, negligible staining
13ft. 3in. x 11ft. 6in. (403cm. x 350cm.)