Carpet (Music)
Maker
Savonnerie Manufactory
(1627 - 2001)
Additional Title(s)
- La Musique
Collections
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Date1670- 1687
Mediumwool, linen, and bast; with repairs and later inserts in wool, cotton, and linen.
Dimensions188 x 320 in. (477.5 x 812.8 cm.)
DescriptionThe carpet is decorated at its center with a complex geometrical motif including vegetal and floral decorative elements, cartouches, and trophies on a ground of foliated scrolls. At both ends of the carpet are reserves with allegorical figures.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
On viewObject number15.3
Savonnerie Manufactory
1719/84; frame of later date (probably nineteenth-century).
Object number: 11.41
