Carpet

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Carpet

Entry/Object ID

SS.81.4

Description

Modern reproduction carpet with beige quatrefoils with red and white borders containing blue, red and white floral devices surrounded by diamonds: in some quatrefoils there are six large blue and white diamonds and five red and white small diamonds, in other quatrefoils there are 4 large red and white diamonds and two large blue and white diamonds; the quatrefoils are connected by overlapping light blue, red and white and slate blue, red and white abstract floral devices and a blue and white diamond at every corner of the quatrefoil.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Franco Scalamandré

Attribution

Maker

Date made

1980

Material

Wool

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Purchased from Scalamandre in 1980. NOTE: Document Brussels carpeting from bedroom and cabinet in the San Francisco Plantation, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1856. Scalamandre calls it "San Francisco."

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Sunnyside, Nieces' Bedroom