Antique European Savonnerie Carpet Beige & Cream Floral, Neoclassical, Circa 1925

A 1920s European Savonnerie, Spanish or Austrian, carpet from around 1925, measuring approximately 401.3 × 533.4 cm (about 13'2" × 17'6"). The composition is built on a beige & cream field with a neoclassical floral design — the formal Savonnerie decorative vocabulary characteristic of high early-20th-century European production. Savonnerie carpets — named for the Savonnerie soap-works at Chaillot, where the manufacture was originally established under royal charter in the 17th century — represent the highest tradition of European knotted-pile carpet production. Hand-knotted wool. Authentic one-of-a-kind antique.