A `HAMMERSMITH` CARPET

Lot 125
25.05.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 30 240
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ID 961036
Lot 125 | A 'HAMMERSMITH' CARPET
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
A 'HAMMERSMITH' CARPET

DESIGNED BY JOHN HENRY DEARLE, WOVEN BY MORRIS & CO., CIRCA 1890

The sea-green field with an overall design of tulips and flowering tendrils woven horizontally, in a ruby-red border of alternate facing leaves enclosing smaller flowerheads, between narrow guard stripes, light surface marks, full pile throughout

7ft.5in. x 5ft.3in. (226 x 160cm.)





Provenance

Commissioned by Robert and Joanna Barr Smith, Auchendarroch, Mount Barker, South Australia.

Sold Sotheby's, Australia, 24 May 1993, lot 221.



Literature

C. Menz, exh. cat., Morris & Company: Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts & Crafts Movement in South Australia, Adelaide, 1994, pl. 144 (photograph of Mrs Barr Smith, c. 1897, seated in the morning room at Auchendarroch, showing this carpet).

C. Menz, exh. cat., Morris & Co., Adelaide, 2002, p. 165.

D. Breuer et. al., Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, London, 2003, pp. 247, 310, cat. no. 195.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Pre Raphaelite and Other Masters, 2003, no. 195



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