A REGENCY AXMINSTER CARPET
A REGENCY AXMINSTER CARPET
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A REGENCY AXMINSTER CARPET

ENGLAND, CIRCA 1820

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A REGENCY AXMINSTER CARPET
ENGLAND, CIRCA 1820
The moss green field with an allover design of floral sprays within a moss green garland border with similar flowers
Approximately 18 ft. 2 in. x 11 ft. 2 in. (554 cm. x 340 cm.)
來源
The Collection of an English Lady and Gentleman of Title.
‌Acquired from C. John, London by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1996.
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Elizabeth Seigel
Elizabeth Seigel Vice President, Specialist, Head of Private and Iconic Collections

拍品專文

In 1775, Thomas Whitty established his carpet manufacturing workshop at Axminster in Devon. His success was almost immediate; Whitty’s Axminster carpets were highly regarded by the Society of Arts and were awarded the Prize offered for carpet weaving in 1757 (shared with Thomas Moore of Moorfields, 1758 (shared with Peter Parisot of Exeter) and 1759 which he won outright. Leading architectural designers including Robert Adam and James Wyatt turned to Whitty to create some of the own designs. Even the Prince of Wales became a patron, commissioning a number of carpets. The full achievement was acknowledged in 1783 with the royal visit of George III to the workshop.
The present carpet has an abundance of naturalistically drawn small floral sprays which are strewn across the field in an apparent haphazard manner, less typical of the more controlled Neoclassical carpets designed by Robert Adam and others.
A similar carpet with a nearly identical pattern of strewn flowers on a navy-blue field is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see B. Jacobs, Axminster Carpets, Leigh-on-Sea, 1970, pl. 6).

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