Wool
China, c. 1890-1900
9'0" X 12'4" (2.74 m x 3.76 m)
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Antique Savonnerie Rug with Botanical Green Floral Design - Rug & Kilim
This 9x12 antique Savonnerie inspired rug is a distinguished hand-knotted wool piece from China dating to circa 1890–1900. The rug features an elegant botanical floral composition rendered in soft ivory, sage green, olive, and muted blush tones.
On the Design:
The design reflects the refined grandeur that defines antique Savonnerie rugs. The composition enjoys an elegant arrangement of scrolling foliage, flowering botanicals, and decorative ornamentation that unfolds gracefully across the field. Set against an open ivory ground, the motifs achieve a remarkable sense of balance and sophistication, lending the piece an airy yet regal presence.
Particularly notable is the rug’s soft natural palette and richly decorative character. Shades of sage green, olive, fern, beige, blush, and muted ivory harmonize beautifully, revealing the influence of French decorative arts and the celebrated weaving traditions associated with Savonnerie workshops. The finely drawn floral motifs and nuanced coloration underscore the artistry of the design, while the gentle patina acquired over time lends an added sense of depth and elegance. A timeless example of French craftsmanship, the rug remains equally compelling as a decorative statement and a collectible work of textile art.
Condition:
This antique Savonnerie rug enjoys good condition for its age and origin.






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- Measurements: 9'0" x 12'4" ( 2.74 m x 3.76 m )
- Categories: Antique, European
- Classification: Classic/Traditional, Floral, Savonnerie
- Material: Wool
- Origin: China
- SKU: 37200
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What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs
Every great rug begins long before the loom. It begins on the animal, in the place, in the particular conditions that made the fiber what it is. And among all the wools that have ever been spun into a carpet, few can rival the wool of the Tibetan highlands, a material whose superiority is not a matter of marketing but of altitude, climate, and the unhurried logic of the natural world. The sheep of the Tibetan plateau live at elevations that would defeat most living things, thin air, brutal cold, a growing season measured against a sky closer than it has any right to be. Nature's answer to that severity is the fleece. To survive the plateau, the animal must grow a wool of exceptional density and, crucially, of exceptional lanolin content; the natural oil that coats each fiber, repels water, resists soil, and lends the finished yarn a luster and resilience that lowland wools cannot approach. What is hardship for the animal is a gift to the weaver.
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The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation
Antique 17th Century French Beauvais Tapestry with Floral Vase - Rug & Kilim, NO. 36829 We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light caught the threads. This was the Antique French Beauvais Tapestry (SKU 36829). It was handwoven in wool, with natural silk accents, circa 1700. When you look at something like that, you do not just see fabric. What you see is the garden of wool and dreams. The precise interlacing of the wefts gives a picture of a gigantic floral vase placed atop an architectural entablature. The botanical imagery is absolutely mesmerizing. There is so much wealth and mystery to it all.
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Christian Bérard, Jean-Michel Frank, and the Making of Nelson Rockefeller’s Most Personal Room
In April 1939, the SS Normandie docked in New York Harbor carrying, somewhere in her hold, a rolled carpet. The Normandie was herself the most extravagant object afloat; an emblem of French luxury and design, her marble lounges dressed with Aubusson carpets, signed furniture, and exceptional lighting, a vessel so audaciously beautiful that the New York Times had described her maiden crossing as "the greatest mass of steel and machinery ever to sail the sea." She was also, in April 1939, five months from her last voyage. Germany would invade Poland in September. The Normandie would be seized by the United States Navy, catch fire during conversion to a troopship, and capsize into the Hudson River, taking with her the full weight of the civilization she had been built to represent.
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Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor
In the showroom of Hüseyin Kaplan, in the Sultanahmet quarter of Istanbul beneath the minarets of the old city, there are more than five hundred carpets that belong to no classical category. They are not Hereke, not Oushak, not the courtly Ottoman medallion weavings that the connoisseur expects from this geography. They are jewel-toned and abstract, shot through with an abstract confidence, and they bear, some of them, the signed ones, a name woven into the border that any Turk and most serious collectors would recognise instantly. They are the work of Zeki Müren, and they constitute one of the most singular bodies of design the twentieth-century carpet has produced.
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What William Morris, Paul Poiret, and the Bauhaus Each Understood About the Rug and What French Art Deco Proved
In the winter of 1883, William Morris stood before a room full of wool merchants, manufacturers, and assorted Victorian worthies in a lecture hall in Birmingham and said something that no one in that room was prepared to hear. The decorative arts, he told them, were not decorative at all. They were the most serious form of human making and their degradation under industrial production was not an aesthetic problem but a civilizational one. He had brought, as he often did, an Oriental carpet to make his point. Then he said, in effect: this is what we have lost the capacity to make, and until we recover it, we have no business calling ourselves a culture.
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A Glossary of Handmade Rugs and Kilims: Understanding Terms, Types and Techniques Past and Present
Referring to the art style characterized by using shape and color withdrawn from traditional repetition or realism. Abstract rugs — sometimes referred to as art rugs — capture an expressive nature that reads as a very modern style, though many abstract rugs draw inspiration from works of the same art style in the mid-century. One of the more widely known mid-century lineages of this style is abstract expressionism, named for the literal "expressionists" of the 1950s. Some of the most notable names behind this style include Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Referring to a lineage of nomadic Persian rugs (sometimes referred to as “Avsar” in the alternate spelling). Afshar rugs hail from the eponymous tribe in the region of Northeastern Iran.
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Antique
Wool
China, c. 1890-1900
9'0" X 12'4" (2.74 m x 3.76 m)
$14,500
Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow
Antique Savonnerie Rug with Botanical Green Floral Design - Rug & Kilim
This 9x12 antique Savonnerie inspired rug is a distinguished hand-knotted wool piece from China dating to circa 1890–1900. The rug features an elegant botanical floral composition rendered in soft ivory, sage green, olive, and muted blush tones.
On the Design:
The design reflects the refined grandeur that defines antique Savonnerie rugs. The composition enjoys an elegant arrangement of scrolling foliage, flowering botanicals, and decorative ornamentation that unfolds gracefully across the field. Set against an open ivory ground, the motifs achieve a remarkable sense of balance and sophistication, lending the piece an airy yet regal presence.
Particularly notable is the rug’s soft natural palette and richly decorative character. Shades of sage green, olive, fern, beige, blush, and muted ivory harmonize beautifully, revealing the influence of French decorative arts and the celebrated weaving traditions associated with Savonnerie workshops. The finely drawn floral motifs and nuanced coloration underscore the artistry of the design, while the gentle patina acquired over time lends an added sense of depth and elegance. A timeless example of French craftsmanship, the rug remains equally compelling as a decorative statement and a collectible work of textile art.
Condition:
This antique Savonnerie rug enjoys good condition for its age and origin.
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- Measurements: 9'0" x 12'4" ( 2.74 m x 3.76 m )
- Categories: Antique, European
- Classification: Classic/Traditional, Floral, Savonnerie
- Material: Wool
- Origin: China
- SKU: 37200
