|
|
Description:
Antique English Needlepoint, late nineteenth century - This stunning antique carpet stands in a long tradition of English needlepoint going back to Elizabethan times. A highly unusual Medieval pattern of scalloped quatrefoils linked by broad strapwork bands occupies the field. Small floral designs fill the spaces within the larger pattern. A thin border provides a nice contrast to the monumental design of the field. The colors are soft, adding to the decorative effect of the design, but the dark ground provides dramatic contrast, accenting the decorative details.
Needlepoint embroidery technique represents a particularly European adaptation of the Oriental carpet. As a medium used to produce copies of rare and precious knotted carpets from the Middle East, needlpoint can be traced back at least to the sixteenth century in England and the Low Countries, where "Small-Pattern Holbein" and other classical Turkish designs were reproduced in this way. English needlepoint production continued to supply interesting reinterpretations of Oriental prototypes right up into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when it also began to focus more on designs drawn form the Arts and Crafts Movement. From the eighteenth century on, English needlepoint competed as well with contemporary French petit-point embroidery working in a Neo-Classical idiom related to th designs of Aubusson tapestry. Beyond England and France, needlepoint carpets are known from various other parts of Europe, like the Ukraine, where the technique was applied to patterns from vernacular folk art.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 2633 |
| Condition:
Very good |
Year:
Late 19th century
|
| Country:
ENGLAND |
|
| Height:
9.7 in. (24.64 cm) |
|
|
Width: 7.5 in. (19.05 cm)
|
|
| Title:
ANTIQUE ENGLISH NEEDLEPOINT CARPET/RUG BY NAZMIYAL.COM |
|
| |
Dealer Policies: Nazmiyal Collection Policy Details
Dealer Accepts:      
|
My
Basket
