Duncan Grant was one of the premiere textile designers of the Omega Workshops in Pre-War Great Britain. The Omega Workshops, owned by the painter, designer and decorator, Allan Walton, was best known for applying the abstract motifs and Fauvist color of the Post-Impressionist sensibility to household furnishings between 1913 and 1919. Although the firm closed in 1919, Grant, along with Vanessa Bell, another Omega designer, went on to create designs for carpets and textiles throughout the 1920s and 1930s, echoing the sleek Art Deco style of the period. The offered lot is characteristic of their work of the mid-1920s, with its subtle palette and bold linear design. An example of a Grant designed carpet with similar fish and lattice motifs can be seen in Elle Decor, October/November 1995, page 104.