A ROYAL LOUIS XIV SAVONNERIE CARPET FRANCE, CIRCA 1669 The charcoal-brown field with bold flourishing polychrome acanthus leaves, entwined with flowers, perching parrots and wingspread eagles, enclosing a central oak leaf framed octagonal panel filled with a bountiful floral bouquet radiating golden lyres, with a pictorial oval lunette to each corner depicting one of the four seasons framed with fruit-filled cornucopiae, within a floral and golden spiralling leaf and rosette border, scattered restorations 24 ft. 7 in. x 11 ft. 6 in. (749 cm. x 350 cm.) Provenance Commissioned by Louis XIV (r. 1643 – 1715). Rothschild collection.
A ROYAL LOUIS XIV SAVONNERIE CARPET FRANCE, CIRCA 1669 The charcoal-brown field with bold flourishing polychrome acanthus leaves, entwined with flowers, perching parrots and wingspread eagles, enclosing a central oak leaf framed octagonal panel filled with a bountiful floral bouquet radiating golden lyres, with a pictorial oval lunette to each corner depicting one of the four seasons framed with fruit-filled cornucopiae, within a floral and golden spiralling leaf and rosette border, scattered restorations 24 ft. 7 in. x 11 ft. 6 in. (749 cm. x 350 cm.) Provenance Commissioned by Louis XIV (r. 1643 – 1715). Rothschild collection.
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