A CHARLES X AUBUSSON PILE CARPET

CIRCA 1830

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A CHARLES X AUBUSSON PILE CARPET
CIRCA 1830
The light fox-brown field with a large flowering basket at each end flanked by flowering and fruiting cornucopia issuing from brightly coloured acanthus scrolls forming a frame and linked to a laurel wreath around the central bold ribbon-tied rose wreath and rosette roundel, inner oak-leaf frame, in a bored dark brown border of scrolling golden acanthus issuing from similar rosettes surounded by laurel wreaths linking dense flowering and leafy panels, between light tan rosette and plain burnt orange stripes, repaired fireplace at each end, small other border repairs, outer stripe missing along two sides, excellent pile throughout
21 ft. 7 in. x 21 ft. 6 in. (656 cm. x 653 cm.)

Lot Essay

The light brown ground and the predominance of pink tones seen in this carpet are both characteristics of carpets made for both the English and French markets. An indication of how these two markets were interlinked in the 18th century is shown by a design by François-Joseph Belanger for the duchesse de Mazarin in 1777. The inscription below the drawing reads "Projet d'un Tapis pour le Sallon pour être executé en Angleterre". By the same notion, sixty or so years later, when the present carpet was woven, it is in a style which was frequently ordered for and sometimes copied in England.

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