A Royal Louis XIV Savonnerie Fragmentary Carpet, Circa 1668-1688
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Royal Louis XIV Savonnerie Fragmentary Carpet, Circa 1668-1688
centered by a fragmentary landscape cartouche depicting a castle and a ship at sea flanked by a pair of fire-breathing hounds and acanthus scrolls and floral sprays on a chocolate-brown ground, within a gold and pale blue cabochon border
approximately 8 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 8 in.
259 by 325 cm
Commissioned by Louis XIV to furnish the Grand Galerie au bord de l'eau in the Palais du Louvre, Paris, c.1668-1688;
Collection Joseph Bardac, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 December 1927;
Collection of Jacques Garcia, Sotheby's New York, 27 October 1990, lot 92;
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 20 May 1998, lot 60;
Christie's London, 14 December 2000, lot 125;
The Collection of Dr. Alexandre Benchoufi, Sotheby's New York, 9 November 2006, lot 91;
Christie's London, 9 February 2023, lot 64;
Where acquired by the present collector.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Dr. Wolf Burchard, "Savonnerie Reviewed: Charles Le Brun and the ‘Grand Tapis de pied d’ouvrage a la Turque’, woven for the Grande Galerie at the Louvre," Furniture History, vol. XLVIII, 2012, pp.1-43
Pierre Verlet, The James A de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: the Savonnerie, Fribourg 1982, p. 485
Jean Vittet, 'Contribution à l’histoire de la Manufacture de la Savonnerie au XVIIe siècle: l’atelier de Simon et Philippe Lourdet d’après les minutes notariales', Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, 1995, p.99-118
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