Lot 8
  • 8

A WOOL 'AU PETIT POINT' EMBROIDERY TABLE CARPET, CIRCA 1660-1670, PROBABLY A FRENCH WORKSHOP |

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • 403 x 198 cm ; 158 1/2 x 78 in.
with flower crowns, garlands, bouquets and leave scrolls on a brownbackground; (wear)

Literature

Related literature:
E. Floret, "Inventaires après décès de Simon Lourdet et Françoise Quarré (1665)", in BSHAF, 1995, p. 119
P. Verlet, Savonnerie. The James A. Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1982, p. 163 and pp. 166-167
J. Vittet, "Contribution à l'histoire de la manufacture de la Savonnerie au XVIIème siècle : l'atelier de Simon et Philippe Lourdet", in BSHAF, 1995, p. 99

Condition

Illustration is slightly too orange. Made of 2 elements joined in the middle, certainly from a wider table carpet.Traces of previous restorations (particularly in the brown background) and areas with wear (canvas visible in places). The border is probably missing and has been replaced by a latter brown braid. Lined. Attractive piece in fair overall condition, highly decorative.
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Catalogue Note

This carpet is part of a corpus known as "Louis XIII" where the rich floral decoration is designed in an encyclopedic manner by the ornamentalists Georges Baussonet and Paul Androuet du Cerceau, and strongly influenced by Persia. The flower is also patterned in a Persian manner. These needlepoint carpets are often wrongly catalogued as English or women's works, but it should be noted that many French workshops produced them. These carpets correlate to the Savonnerie carpets from the same period. From its design, we can compare this carpet with another delivered for Maria-Theresa of Austria now housed at the Mobilier national.