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A Charles X Savonnerie carpet, France, circa 1830

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May 18, 04:38 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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A Charles X Savonnerie carpet, France

circa 1830


approximately 435 by 317cm; 14ft. 3in., 10ft 5in.

Sotheby's New York, Important English and European Furniture, Silver, Porcelain and Carpets, 23 May 2012, lot 208;
Dildarian, Inc., New York, 1987.

The most influential designer of Savonnerie carpets during the second half of the First Empire (1804-1814), Charles X period (1824-1830) and most of the Bourbon Restoration period was Jacques-Louis de La Hamayde de Saint-Ange-Desmaison (known as Saint Ange (1780-1860) and he had many imitators. For comprehensive discussion of Savonnerie carpet production in France see Sherrill, Sarah B, Carpets and Rugs or Europe and America, Abbeville Press, 1996, Chp. 3, France, pp.58-109.


For a Bourbon Restoration, circa 1820, Savonnerie carpet with central floral medallion and corner cornucopia with flowers, p.92, pl.99,  and First Empire, early 19th century Aubusson carpets which the design inspired, pp.103-104.  


Jarry, Madeleine, The Carpets of the Manufacture de la Savonnerie, 1966, fig. 65, illustrates a comparable with rosette medallion and plain ground, and fig. 78 for a more complicated design, Restoration (Charles X), designed by Saint-Ange, circa 1825, with paterae and floral medallion against plain ground, and corner flowers, albeit with a more elaborate border, (both Mobilier National, Paris).