Antique Savonnerie Carpet Item No.: BB2599 Size: 8'10" × 10'3" Price: $10,000 Print Inquiry Area Rugs > Antique Rugs > European Rugs > French Savonnerie Rugs > Antique Savonnerie Carpet Antique Savonnerie Carpet BB2599 8'10" × 10'3" $10,000 An artistic French Savonnerie carpet, the black field having a pastel curvilinear design of delicate floral motifs and architectural leafy vines around a small flowerhead framed by an architectural inner frame within a thin solid outer blue stripe. Many weavers who settled in France were Huguenots who had fled Spain during the Inquisition in the early sixteenth century. By issuing the edict of Nantes, Henry IV granted all non-Catholics freedom of worship, the re by protecting the antique carpet weavers in Aubusson. Aubusson weavers became the finest craftsmen in the world. Louis XIV’s influential Prime Minister Colbert established the long and hard apprenticeship necessary to obtain the title “Master of Tapestry”. Even today, the center in Aubusson, under control of the French Ministry of Arts, is busily producing oldest European carpet and rugs of the most exquisite quality. Antique Savonnerie and Aubusson rugs and carpetsare considered to be among the finest examples of carpet production undertaken in Europe over the past 350 years. Share00 In stock Print Inquiry Add to cart Download Product added to wishlist. Price: $10,000 Add to Wishlist Product added! Browse Wishlist The product is already in the wishlist! Browse Wishlist Item No.: BB2599 Circa: 1920 Size: 8'10" × 10'3" (269 × 312 cm) Style: Botanic, Formal Origin: Europe, France Similar rugs Add to cartProduct added to wishlist. Oversized Antique Savonnerie Carpets BB1329 16'3" × 21'9" Size: 16'3" × 21'9" (495 × 662 cm) $120,000 $120,000 Add to cartProduct added to wishlist. Large Vintage Savonnerie Green Carpet BB3403 14'10" × 20'0" Size: 14'10" × 20'0" (452 × 609 cm) $85,000 $85,000 Add to cartProduct added to wishlist. Savonnerie Fragment Rug BB7536 8'7" × 11'9" Size: 8'7" × 11'9" (261 × 358 cm) $55,000 $55,000 Add to cartProduct added to wishlist. Antique French fragment Rug BB4065 7'10" × 8'10" Size: 7'10" × 8'10" (238 × 269 cm) $4,000 $4,000 Add to cartProduct added to wishlist. Oversized Savonnerie Antique Rug BB6129 15'0" × 19'9" Size: 15'0" × 19'9" (457 × 601 cm) $80,000 $80,000 Add to cartProduct added to wishlist. Vintage Savonnerie Carpet BB3780 6'10" × 7'3" Size: 6'10" × 7'3" (208 × 220 cm) $28,000 $28,000