The Property of a European Princely Family
A NAPOLEON III AUBUSSON CARPET
CIRCA 1860
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A NAPOLEON III AUBUSSON CARPET
Circa 1860
The ivory field with a central raspberry-red and ivory shaded panel surrounded by scrolling acanthus leaf vine with a central floral bouquet, in a raspberry-red frame with floral cartouches at each side and end and a stylised floral bouquet in each corner, in a raspberry-red border of linked acanthus-leaf vine with an oak-leaf motif at each corner between light beige moulded bamboo and dart motif stripes, plain outer chocolate-brown broad stripe, some areas of staining and localised areas of slight wear and old repair
14 ft. 11 in. x 19 ft. (455 cm. x 579 cm.)
Circa 1860
The ivory field with a central raspberry-red and ivory shaded panel surrounded by scrolling acanthus leaf vine with a central floral bouquet, in a raspberry-red frame with floral cartouches at each side and end and a stylised floral bouquet in each corner, in a raspberry-red border of linked acanthus-leaf vine with an oak-leaf motif at each corner between light beige moulded bamboo and dart motif stripes, plain outer chocolate-brown broad stripe, some areas of staining and localised areas of slight wear and old repair
14 ft. 11 in. x 19 ft. (455 cm. x 579 cm.)
Provenance
Olga Nikolaievna, Grand Duchess of Russia and Queen of Württemberg (d.1892), second daughter of Tsar Nicholas I, Villa Berg, Stuttgart.
Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand-daughter of Tsar Nicholas I and Duchess of Württemberg (d.1912), niece of the above. Thence by descent
Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand-daughter of Tsar Nicholas I and Duchess of Württemberg (d.1912), niece of the above. Thence by descent