Carpet
Claude Passavant
Category
Carpets, rugs and mats
Date
1758
Materials
Textile, linen and wool
Measurements
3630 mm (Width); 4870 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Exeter
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486518
Summary
An eighteenth century English knotted carpet designed with a central arabesque panel of a sunflower within a scrolled border, the field of cube-pattern decorated with scattered flowers and with black spandrels with scrolling in pinks.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
EXON 1758 (on upperside of edging)
Makers and roles
Claude Passavant, manufacturer