Carpet
Claude Passavant
Category
Carpets, rugs and mats
Date
1756 - 1766
Materials
textile
Measurements
384 cm (W)396 cm (Length)
Place of origin
Exeter
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440590
Summary
[Saved] 18th century carpet designed by Claude Passavant (d.1766) and made in his Exeter workshop in about 1760. In imitation of the French Savonnerie style, with a pale sprigged plum coloured field centred by a circular medallion of roses and paterae, enclosed by four medallions framed with bulrushes and woven with birds, enclosed by a pale blue border of polychrome summer flowers and groups of fruit, and an outer frame-pattern border in shades of ivory, pink and blue with acanthus leaves and cartouches at the corners. Another carpet by Passavant is in the National Trust collection at Petworth House (NT 486518).
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1968 by Mrs Hannah Gubbay
Makers and roles
Claude Passavant, designer Claude Passavant, maker