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William Morris: Arts & Crafts machine-made woollen twill Kidderminster rug in ‘Lily’ pattern, Heckmondwike Manufacturing Co., Yorkshire, England, about 1875 7ft.6in. x 5ft. 2.29m. x 1.52m. Reduced in size from original piece, areas of damage and loss principally top left corner and edge, canvas backed. See Haslam, Arts & Crafts Carpets, fig. 26, p.43 for a version of this carpet in shades of blue with variant single narrow border (the illustration taken from Aymer Vallance, The Art of William Morris, 1897) and a discussion of Morris’s commercial designs for Heckmondwike and other manufacturing companies in the 1870s and 1880s. Also Parry, William Morris Textiles, fig. 140, p. 172 and William Morris and The Arts & Crafts Movement – A Source Book, pl. 86, for a sample in similar shades of green to the present piece. Not surprisingly, made-up examples of Morris’s designs for commercial carpeting have not survived in great numbers and would now appear to be very rare, especially examples such as this with matching borders.
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Large modernist carpet, probably Ushak, west Anatolia about 1930, 21ft.7in. x 10ft.1in. 6.57m. x 3.07m. Uneven wear, mainly in centre. This carpet, with its subtle tri-tone field in red, pink and purple, is reputed to be from the home in West Dean, Sussex, of Edward James, the well-known art patron and collector of Surrealist painting.
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A remarkable Chinese ‘Deco’ carpet, Tianjin about 1920-30, 13ft.8in. x 10ft.8in. 4.17m. x 3.25m. The predominant purple-green-yellow palette of this rug is typical of one group of early Tianjin ‘deco’ rugs; compare, for example, the rug illustrated p. 105 (bottom) in Bogen, ‘What the wool trade wrought – Rug Making in early 20th century Tianjin’, Hali 118, pp. 102-5.
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Xinjiang (East Turkestan) carpet, possibly Aksu, west China, late 19th century, 12ft.1in. x 9ft.1in. 3.68m. x 2.77m. Overall uneven wear, heavy in lower field and left inner guards with holes, purple unevenly corroded, small distressed areas with losses upper left corner and lower end right. With all cotton double wefted foundations and long-stapled asymmetric knots, the exact origin of this carpet is a little difficult to pin point, although East Turkestan seems fairly certain; it has the very geometric version of the Herati pattern associated with carpets from this region of western China together with a narrow plain outer ‘frame’, narrow striped plainweave ends and a distinctive and attractive palette seen now to best advantage in the two major borders, especially in the wider outer one, where the occasional corrosion of the purple ground gives the hooked medallions an embossed effect in places. The design in the outer buff-yellow ground guard, a repeated hook-like motif with ‘umbrella’, can be seen in the inner guard of the Herati pattern carpet in Lorentz, A View of Chinese Rugs, pl. 9 and a closely related version of the ‘flower and leaf’ pattern of the innermost guard can be seen in the two blue ground guards on the silk Khotan carpet, also with Herati pattern, in Bidder, Carpets from East Turkestan, pl. XVIII.
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Tabriz carpet, north west Persia about 1920, 11ft.2in. x 7ft.6in. 3.40m.x 2.29m. Overall uneven wear, small area slight damage in centre. And an Ushak ‘Turkey’ carpet, west Anatolia early 20th century, 9ft.10in. x 9ft.3in. 3m. x 2.82m. Three narrow distress areas (possibly burns) upper left field, stain, slight losses both ends. (2)
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