Sale 1153
London
|
14 November 2013
Price realised
GBP 8,750
Estimate
AN EMPIRE AUBUSSON CARPET FRANCE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY The shaded chestnut-brown field with an overall pattern of small individual flowerheads surrounding a pale yellow floral swag roundel in a pale yellow flowering leaf border, localised professional repair and repiling, backed 16ft.5in. x 14ft.5in. (499cm. x 439cm.)
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A very similar example is illustrated in Sarah B. Sherrill, Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America, New York, 1995, pl.114, p.105.
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