An Axminster carpet, England

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Description

An Axminster carpet
927 by 590cm., 30ft. 4in. by 19ft. 4in.

Provenance

Mrs. Derek FitzGerald, Heathfield Park, Sussex (according to Jacobs, Axminster Carpets, see below)

Sold Sotheby's London, July 5, 1963, lot 43, £1700

Literature

Jacobs, Bertram, Axminster Carpets 1755-1957, Leigh-on-Sea, 1970, p.52 and pl.36 & 37

Catalogue Note

Jacobs, ibid., suggests this carpet was made sometime between 1792, when Thomas Whitty II took over the Axminster workshops from his father, and his death in 1799.