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Tapestry

Wool

NO. 32379

France

5'2" X 6'3" (1.57 m x 1.91 m)

$8,300

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Signed Vintage Jacques Potin Tapestry “Le Petit Rappel Des Oiseaux” Rug & Kilim

This 5x6 vintage tapestry is a signed collectible from the mid-century Aubusson works of French artist Jacques Potin. Handwoven in wool and hailing from France circa 1940-1949, it’s both a rare collectible and one of an exciting curation of works from this artist in Rug & Kilim’s European rug and tapestry collection. On the Design: “LE PETIT RAPPEL DES OISEAUX” (which translates to “The Little Reminder of the Birds”) is an expressive work of abstract impressionism, originating during a bold resurgence of the style among Potin’s works and the works of his contemporaries in post-modernist France. A blue and black border surrounds a dramatic figural depiction of birds, butterflies, and leaves in a tree, underscored by gold, chartreuse, and similar autumnal tones. Admirers of the craft will note the masterful use of colors in such a playful, almost positive negative use of bright and rich together—an outstanding way to create both whimsy and depth in the bold, graphic beauty of such an illustration. From the impressive range of colors and details in the sharpness and curvature of this construction to the sense of movement and life, its many beauties and distinctions speak to a masterpiece of the period; a true collector’s find, exemplary of Potin’s works and the few others of similar provenance. Condition: This vintage Aubusson tapestry further enjoys great condition for its age and origin—an extremely collectible work. Ideally for exclusive use in wall-hanging projects and similar applications.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 5'2" x 6'3" ( 1.57 m x 1.91 m )
Categories: European, Modern, Tapestry, Vintage
Classification: Abstract, Aubusson, Classic/Traditional, European, Floral, Modern/Contemporary, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 32379

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Stories from the Tapestry Collection

Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.

August 28, 2026

The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era

In the dining room of a banker's house in Brussels there is a wall of gold. Klimt designed it; the Stoclet Frieze, a tree of life branching across marble and enamel and coral, a dancer on one side and an embracing couple on the other, the couple a direct rehearsal for the painting the whole world would later know as The Kiss. But to stand in that room, were one ever permitted to, is to understand that the frieze is not the point of it. The point is that the frieze, the marble, the cutlery, the door handles, and the carpet underfoot were all conceived as a single object by a single mind. The Palais Stoclet, built by Josef Hoffmann between 1905 and 1911 and now sealed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the most complete surviving statement of the idea that organised an entire Viennese century: the Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of art, in which nothing; not the spoon, not the dress, not the floor, ranks below the painting on the wall.

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July 17, 2026

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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July 10, 2026

Deventer, KVT and the Dutch Carpet: The Workshop that Wove for Royalty

The Dutch did not look abroad for the floors of their palaces. This is a small fact with large implications. When the courts of Europe sent to Aubusson and Savonnerie for their carpets, when the very word Smyrna on a label conferred the authority of the East, the House of Orange laid beneath its ceremonial rooms a carpet woven in a river town in the eastern Netherlands, at a factory that had, with a confidence bordering on provocation, named its own street after Smyrna itself. Smyrnastraat, in Deventer. The address of the Koninklijke Vereenigde Tapijtfabrieken, and a declaration of standing made in cobblestone.

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June 23, 2026

Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Joanne Soroka

There are artists who weave cloth and the ones who weave ideas. And then there are artists; rare, serious, working at a register that most practitioners of any medium never reach, who weave lives. Not their own lives, though those are present too, but the lives of people who left no other record: emigrants who crossed oceans under duress, ancestors who worked rivers in foreign countries, families scattered across continents by persecution and necessity and the simple human desire for somewhere better than where they were. Joanne Soroka weaves these lives. She gives them, as she has said herself, the meaning that history denied them. The loom, in her hands then, is an act of remembrance, slow, physical, irreversible, and as close to justice as textile art has ever come.

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February 11, 2026

Tuareg Textiles and Design: History, Tribal Craft, and Contemporary Influence

The Sahara has never been short of ideas. It has merely been selective about who hears them. The Tuareg did not set out to create an aesthetic. They created a system. Long before design was professionalized, categorized, or monetized, Tuareg artisans developed a material language governed by movement, restraint, and exacting necessity. What remains today — in textiles, metalwork, and spatial logic — is not folklore but authorship: a coherent design intelligence that continues to inform contemporary practice, whether acknowledged or not. At Rug & Kilim, we approach Tuareg works not as ethnographic specimens, nor as romantic artifacts, but as foundational design objects. They belong not on the margins of decorative history, but firmly within its canon.

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May 20, 2025

The Collector’s Wall: Why Tapestries Are the New Fine Art

The tapestry is not a reproduction—it is a creation. Once relegated to the periphery of fine art, tapestries are undergoing a powerful renaissance. No longer viewed as mere backdrops to oil paintings or gilded mirrors, these monumental textiles are now commanding attention in private collections and major museums alike. From their intricate provenance to their undeniable artistry, collectible tapestries—especially rare examples like antique French Aubusson and Swedish Rölakan—are fast becoming the new standard for connoisseurs seeking depth, dimension, and history on their walls. Once relegated to the margins of decorative arts, the tapestry is now ascending—as a cornerstone of connoisseurship, a collector’s grail, and a living artifact that bridges the realms of fine art, design, and cultural memory.

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Tapestry

Wool

NO. 32379

France

5'2" X 6'3" (1.57 m x 1.91 m)

$8,300

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Signed Vintage Jacques Potin Tapestry “Le Petit Rappel Des Oiseaux” Rug & Kilim

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Specifications:

Measurements: 5'2" x 6'3" ( 1.57 m x 1.91 m )
Categories: European, Modern, Tapestry, Vintage
Classification: Abstract, Aubusson, Classic/Traditional, European, Floral, Modern/Contemporary, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 32379

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Stories from the Tapestry Collection

The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era

Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor

Deventer, KVT and the Dutch Carpet: The Workshop that Wove for Royalty

Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Joanne Soroka

Tuareg Textiles and Design: History, Tribal Craft, and Contemporary Influence

The Collector’s Wall: Why Tapestries Are the New Fine Art

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Signed Vintage Jacques Potin Tapestry “Le Petit Rappel Des Oiseaux” Rug & Kilim

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