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Nazmiyal Collection
This charming elegant and antique rug - an antique English piece made toward the end of the nineteenth century - is as lovely as it is representative of the traditions from which it emerged. The classical, naturalistic rendering of the leafy curling scrolls and flowers on this lovely antique English rug recall the French Savonnerie carpets from across the Channel. But the deeper golden coloration and the asymmetry of the design are distinctively English, recalling the taste and sensibility of the arts and Crafts Movement of the times. The soft reds and ivory play off especially nicely against the varied shades of warm tan. A beautiful rug that typifies the aesthetic principles of Western European design, this English piece offers the opportunity to own the sort of rug that is more than just a decorative piece, but also a piece filled with cultural poetry.
Doris Leslie Blau
A mid-19th-century French antique fragment rug, the moss green field with scattered feathery red leaves and ivory flowerheads around a bold polychrome medallion within a sand and sage scrolling vinery border. The French Savonnerie rugs factory, located on the site of the present Musee d'Art Moderne, inherited its name from the soap-making factory it took over at the behest of Louis XIII. From 1660 until 1743 Savonnerie was a manufacturer of royale, carrying out commissions for French Savonnerie rugs and carpets specifically designed for the Royal palaces. In the 1770s, the tapestry looms at Aubusson in the Cruze Valley near Limoges were converted to produce flat-woven antique oriental rugs and carpets under royal warrant. No one knows precisely when European rugs weaving began in this area, but it is certain that tapestries were first woven there long before the Gothic era.
Lavender Oriental Carpets
Antique circa 1900 Persian Sultanabad rug. The term distressed describes a rug where areas of the rug show the warp and have or are low all over. However, the rug has a solid foundation and will stand up to the rigors of normal daily use.
French Aubusson rugs are considered the crème de la crème of all European carpets, Louis XIV’s influential Prime Minister Colbert made sure of that by establishing a long and hard apprenticeship necessary to obtain the title “Master of Tapestry”. This antique Aubusson rug clearly shows what is the reason behind this widespread recognition. Created in the first half of the 20th century, the piece boasts a classy architectural and botanical design. The sage field carries an overall architecturally-formed tile design formed of pale pink bands with rosettes at the intersections and containing flowerheads formed by curving leaves within a sage outer border. In terms of workmanship, the antique French rug meets all the expectations of a conscious buyer. Its body was carefully hand-knotted out of the finest wool in accordance with traditional Aubusson techniques. If properly maintained, the piece will serve its owners for generations without any signs of wear.
A modern second quarter 20th-century French country rug, the camel field with minor circles and triangles in bands framing the tiles containing brown and beige flowerheads within a thin outer stripe. Rug production was introduced to Europe by the Moors of Spain between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. While Oriental rugs initially had a significant influence on European rugs designs, various regions came to develop their own unique styles and techniques over time. In France, starting in the seventeenth century, factories in Savonnerie and Aubusson rugs for sale began producing some of the most exceptional rugs of the last few centuries. From 1660 until 1743 Savonnerie was a manufacture royal, carrying out commissions for pile antique rugs and carpets specifically designed for the Royal Palaces. In England, high-quality rug production in the town of Axminster in the late 18th century gradually paved the way for the Arts and Crafts rugs in the late nineteenth century when William Morris designed a pattern for an Axminster rug.
