Wool
India, New
11'6" X 15'6" (3.51 m x 4.72 m)
Available: Shipping As Soon As Tomorrow
Oversized Vintage Aubusson Floral Rug in Beige & Pale Pink - Rug & Kilim
Made with hand-knotted wool, this 12x16 oversized vintage rug from circa 1940–1950 exemplifies the enduring elegance of French decorative traditions. Its spacious scale and refined botanical composition reflect the sophisticated design sensibilities that characterized many European carpets of the mid-20th century.
On the Design:
This magnificent vintage carpet embodies a graceful interpretation of classical French textile design, showcasing the romantic floral vocabulary that remained popular well into the mid-century period. The expansive field adopts an open, all-over arrangement where cascading stems, tulips, and delicate rosettes drift effortlessly across the composition. Executed with remarkable softness and clarity, the motifs evoke the painterly charm associated with fine European decorative arts and textiles. A wide architectural border frames the field with complementary floral bouquets, lending balance, symmetry, and a sense of refined grandeur to the overall design.
The rug’s visual appeal is further enhanced by its beautifully mellow palette. A warm oatmeal-beige ground provides a gentle backdrop for accents of rose pink, dusty salmon, muted ochre, and soft sage green, creating a harmonious and inviting aesthetic. Hand-knotted in wool and finished with a low-profile pile, the piece offers both durability and understated elegance. Its generous proportions and timeless decorative character make it particularly well suited to traditional interiors, classical dining rooms, formal living spaces, and sophisticated bedroom settings. Condition This Vintage Aubusson rug enjoys good condition for its age and origin.



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- Measurements: 11'6" x 15'6" ( 3.51 m x 4.72 m )
- Categories: European, Vintage
- Classification: Aubusson, Classic/Traditional, Distressed, European, Floral
- Material: Wool
- Origin: India
- SKU: 37236
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Stories from the Vintage Collection
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting
Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and that discipline rests on three questions. Across four decades of building one of the most significant archives in the country, this house has come to evaluate every object through the same three. They are the difference between buying and collecting, and they are worth setting down plainly, because they apply as readily to a Safavid fragment as to a signed Aubusson, and because they are the same three questions, at bottom, that a curator at the Metropolitan or a specialist at Christie's brings to any object of consequence.
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Savonnerie, Aubusson, Gobelins: The Three Ateliers That Defined What Europe Believed a Rug Could Be
In the final years of the sixteenth century, the treasury of France was hemorrhaging. Not to war alone though there had been enough of that but to the East. French silver was flowing steadily toward Persia and the Levant in exchange for knotted-pile carpets, objects of such refinement and such authority that no European workshop had yet produced anything capable of competing with them. Henri IV, who had survived the Wars of Religion and the bankruptcy of a kingdom to sit on the French throne, was not a man inclined to accept a problem he could solve. He installed Pierre Dupont — weaver, entrepreneur, and the most technically accomplished carpet-maker in France in the galleries of the Louvre itself, in workshops beneath the palace's own roof, with a single instruction: make something that does not require us to send money to Persia.
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Rug of the Week IV: Mandaroux’s Le Carnaval — A Mid-Century Aubusson Tapestry in the Age of Postwar Reinvention
NO. 33873 Vintage French Aubusson Mandaroux Tapestry in Green with Pictorial | Rug & Kilim >> When the name Aubusson appears in a conversation among connoisseurs, it evokes an institution: five centuries of tapestry production that has furnished the courts of France, the grand hôtels particuliers of Paris, and the most ambitious interiors of Europe. Yet, the 20th century forced Aubusson into an existential shift. With the Second World War leaving both industry and identity fractured, the ateliers of central France were compelled to modernize. Painters, architects, and designers were invited to collaborate, transforming tapestry from historicist ornament into a modern art form.
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Rug of the Week Series III: Power, Pattern, and Politics in French Needlepoints of the Second Empire
There are objects that decorate, and there are objects that define. This mid-19th century French needlepoint rug—handmade in wool between 1850 and 1860—is firmly of the latter category. At first glance, its medallion-and-floral field, worked in shades of imperial blue, martial red, and softened beige-brown, reads as a refinement of ornament. Yet within its stitches lies the broader cultural program of Napoleon III’s Second Empire, when interiors were designed as orchestrated symbols of hierarchy, order, and political continuity. To understand a textile such as this is to understand the interior not as decoration but as stagecraft: a point where power, domestic life, and aesthetics converged.
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Rug of The Week Series II: Jean Lurçat’s L’Homme and the Political Resurrection of Tapestry
Some works enter a room as objects; others arrive as events. Jean Lurçat’s L’Homme does not merely hang—it presides. It does not wait for you to look; it looks back. Woven in postwar France, at a time when the language of beauty had been shattered by history, this tapestry is a declaration: that art must outlast its maker, and that a wall can bear more than ornament—it can bear witness. The Eternal Sentinel of Human Dignity and Earth’s Memory The man here is not merely a figure but a totem—an emblem of humanity rooted in the soil, crowned with nature’s defiance. Lurçat, whose postwar revival of the Aubusson tapestry tradition redefined its purpose, would say this figure is not a portrait but a mirror: a reflection of what dignity looks like when stripped of ornamentation, yet woven with the richest colors of survival.
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The World of Period Piece Rugs and Kilims: Provenance, Style, and Collecting Masterworks
In the world of fine art and design, the term period piece is not a casual descriptor—it is an assurance of historical integrity, stylistic authenticity, and documented provenance. To speak of period piece rugs and kilims is to speak not simply of textiles, but of time made tangible. From the opulent wool-and-silk Savonneries gracing the salons of Louis XIV, to the restrained architectural harmony of French Aubussons, the modernist clarity of a signed Leleu, or the atmospheric geometry of Chinese Art Deco and Peking carpets—these are not mere floor coverings. They are artefacts of intent, designed to speak to power, status, and the zeitgeist of their era.
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Vintage
Wool
India, New
11'6" X 15'6" (3.51 m x 4.72 m)
$22,000
Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow
Oversized Vintage Aubusson Floral Rug in Beige & Pale Pink - Rug & Kilim
Made with hand-knotted wool, this 12x16 oversized vintage rug from circa 1940–1950 exemplifies the enduring elegance of French decorative traditions. Its spacious scale and refined botanical composition reflect the sophisticated design sensibilities that characterized many European carpets of the mid-20th century.
On the Design:
This magnificent vintage carpet embodies a graceful interpretation of classical French textile design, showcasing the romantic floral vocabulary that remained popular well into the mid-century period. The expansive field adopts an open, all-over arrangement where cascading stems, tulips, and delicate rosettes drift effortlessly across the composition. Executed with remarkable softness and clarity, the motifs evoke the painterly charm associated with fine European decorative arts and textiles. A wide architectural border frames the field with complementary floral bouquets, lending balance, symmetry, and a sense of refined grandeur to the overall design.
The rug’s visual appeal is further enhanced by its beautifully mellow palette. A warm oatmeal-beige ground provides a gentle backdrop for accents of rose pink, dusty salmon, muted ochre, and soft sage green, creating a harmonious and inviting aesthetic. Hand-knotted in wool and finished with a low-profile pile, the piece offers both durability and understated elegance. Its generous proportions and timeless decorative character make it particularly well suited to traditional interiors, classical dining rooms, formal living spaces, and sophisticated bedroom settings. Condition This Vintage Aubusson rug enjoys good condition for its age and origin."Josh has been able to dredge up some of the rarest and most beautiful carpets for our nerdy and stringent requirements. And we have had a grand time together assembling collections for clients."
— Ralph Harvard, Ralph Harvard Inc.
- Measurements: 11'6" x 15'6" ( 3.51 m x 4.72 m )
- Categories: European, Vintage
- Classification: Aubusson, Classic/Traditional, Distressed, European, Floral
- Material: Wool
- Origin: India
- SKU: 37236
