Sale 1385
New York
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15 June 2004
Price realised
USD 125,100
Estimate
A HAND KNOTTED WOOL CARPET MARION DORN, MANUFACTURED BY WILTON ROYAL CARPET FACTORY, CIRCA 1930 13 ft. 11 in. x 10 ft. 8 in. (424.1 x 325.1 cm.) signed in the weave DORN
Provenance
S. Franses, London
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cf. Susan Day, Art Deco And Modernist Carpets, 2002, p. 160, fig. 222, a carpet to a similar design in the half-pile technique from Syrie Maugham's Chelsea drawing room, circa 1933, reproduced.
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