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    IMPORTANT 20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS

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    15 June 2004

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    • A HAND KNOTTED WOOL CARPET
    Lot 105

    A HAND KNOTTED WOOL CARPET

    MARION DORN, MANUFACTURED BY WILTON ROYAL CARPET FACTORY, CIRCA 1930

    Price realised

    USD 125,100

    Estimate

    USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

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    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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    Lot Essay

    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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