Antique Spanish Carpet, circa 1920s

A pointed and pendanted oval sand medallion is set on the open beige field within dandy corners enclosing flowers. The rust brown main border shows stencil simple palmettes and a vol...

Fit for a Rothschild, this large antique French tapestry-woven carpet shows a large, layered oval medallion with an ivory central panel enclosing a detailed rose bouquet., all on a s...

The soft terracotta field is decorated y spiral arabesques sprouting maple leaves and smaller foliate ornaments. The medallion with its multiple ogival pendants is copied from the fa...

On a Turkey red field, are set five columns of hooked palmettes alternate with Yaprak (Leaf) verticals in a pattern derived from 18th century Smyrna Oushak carpets. The light green b...

Art Deco Savonnerie carpet, 1920s France, circa 1920-1930.   

This exquisite early-twentieth-century carpet was produced in Alcaraz, Spain. This carpet is an excellent example of the formal mandate to develop a distinctively Spanish style of artwork. It is an allover design that is in cream and green. The pink border sets the carpet off. Alcaraz is a region in Southern Castile and is thought to be one of the first centres to produce these new designs. The colours of the antique Spanish rugs became muted due to experimentation with new dyestuffs. Also, the skill of the Moorish master carpet dyers was lost. Many of these antique Alcaraz carpets...

Under the direction of Pierre Dupont and Simon Lourdet carpet production commenced in France in the early 17th Century. In 1608, a workshop was set up in the Louvre, followed by the ...

Seven unidirectional tulips/vases are neatly positioned up the cream field of this Irish runner in the Oushak manner the field and border are both in an stencil style without outline...