A LOUIS XVI STYLE AUBUSSON PILE CARPET

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE AUBUSSON PILE CARPET
Early 20th Century
The mocha brown field with a polychrome ribbon-tied floral garland formed medallion flanked by ormolesque acanthus and shell corners within an indigo acanthus leaf frame border
Approximately 12ft. 9in. x 7ft. 6in. (389cm. x 229cm.)

Lot Essay

The design of this carpet is loosely based a on Louis XVI period Savonnerie carpet, now in the collection of the Mobilier National, see Verlet, Pierre, The James A. DeRotheschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, The Savonnerie, 1982, fig. 80, p. 135.