Fine Antique Botanic Orange Needlework Carpet

A late 19th century needlework carpet, having a sand ground with whimsical flowering vinery around a gold leafy vine framing a central medallion containing a floral bouquet within a narrow gold border with leaves.

English needlepoints antique rugs, renowned for their profuse floral motifs, reached an artistic zenith in 1700-1750 but were produced through the end of the nineteenth century. Mainly used as table antique carpets, the earliest pieces, dating from 1550-1650, exhibited scrolls of flowers with pictorial and heraldic motifs. Eighteenth-century pieces reveal the influence of contemporary artistic movements including baroque, chinoiserie, neoclassical, and rococo.

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This is Fine Antique Botanic Orange Needlework Carpet number BB8516 in our internal collections. This rug was manufactured around 1880 in Europe, which means it is already 144 years old.

The dimensions of this rug are: 11'0" × 14'10" width × length, which corresponds to 335 × 452 cm in the metric system. This rug comes from the "Antique" era of carpet production.

The rug pattern most used colors are: and Orange, and as a rug was qualified by our experts as a Botanic style in our wide offer of NeedleWork rugs. If you are interested in this unique work of art, please contact us with the number BB8516 for further information.

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