Lot 149
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A Donegal carpet, After a design by Gavin Morton and G.K. Robertson, Ireland,

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Donegal carpet, After a design by Gavin Morton and G.K. Robertson
  • approximately 447 by 335cm., 14ft. 8in. by 11ft.

Catalogue Note

For another example of a Donegal carpet of this design, please see Haslam, Malcom, Arts and Crafts Carpets, David Black Oriental Carpets, London, 1991, p.106, fig. 67.  Fig. 68 ibid. illustrates a photograph from  The Studio magazine, Special Summer Number, 1901, showing a pair of Donegal carpets of this design at Dixcot, a house built in 1900 for the wallpaper manufacturer Raleigh Essex.  This design must have proved a popular one for the Donegal factory as it exists in other colourways and sizes, see Haslam, M. op. cit., p. 98, fig. 62 and pp.108 & 9, figs. 69 & 70 for examples.