PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF TARA COLBURN TO BE SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF LOS ANGELES OPERA AND OTHER CHARITIES (Lots 123-130 and 158)

AN AUBUSSON CARPET

FRANCE, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN AUBUSSON CARPET
FRANCE, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The light burgundy field with a ton-sur-ton design of a scroll motif within a lush border of rose, peony, and digitalis blossoms entwined with squashes, grapes and pomegranates with animal trophies in each corner
Approximately 19 ft. 2 in. x 15 ft. 3 in. (584 cm. x 465 cm.)

Lot Essay

A Savonnerie carpet was in the 1844 Exposition Française des Produits de l'Industrie and displays a similar exuberant treatment of lush foliage, flowers and fruit (please see Floret, E., Great Carpets of the World, Paris, 1996, plate 253).

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