WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)

IMPORTANT CARPET, FROM 1 HOLLAND PARK, CIRCA 1883

Details
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)
IMPORTANT CARPET, FROM 1 HOLLAND PARK, CIRCA 1883
hand-knotted wool
199 in. (505.4 cm.) long; 51 in. (129.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
A.A. Ionides, 1 Holland Park, London;
By Descent;
Sotheby's London, 23 October 1987, lot 370.
Literature
This example illustrated: 'An Epoch-Making House', The Studio, XII, 1897, p.109 p. 74., fig. 47;
M. Haslam, Arts and Crafts Carpets, London, 1991, p. 74, fig.47;
J. Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, Hong Kong, 1998, fig. 446.

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Lot Essay


This carpet was commissioned by Alexander A. Ionides for the Marble Hall of his home at 1 Holland Park. 'Alecco' Ionides was one of the third generation of influential Greek merchants who had become British subjects and, like his father Alexander Constantine Ionides, was a major art patron and collector, notably of the Aesthetic Movement. He employed many of the major names of the style - including Thomas Jeckyll (see lot 109), Walter Crane (see lot 112), Philip Webb and William Morris - to convert, decorate and furnish his house. Ionides and Morris shared an interest in Middle Eastern design and Morris & Co. bought dyes for the colouring of his carpets from Ionides & Co, the family's textile firm. Of the original furnishings from the house, a piano by Burne-Jones, a Morris carpet and a tapestry by Morris, Webb and Dearle, are now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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