the rose red field with six columns of twelve 'Salor' gols, the blue, red and ivory border of 'Holbein' design with later tasselled ends

‘West Horsley Place II’, Country Life, 1 April 1939, p. 331, illustrated in the Drawing Room.

257cm across the top; 272cm across the bottom; 316cm to the left; 316cm to the right. 259cm horizontally from the middle; 320cm vertically from the middle. A very striking carpet of deep and rich Burgundy red colour. The pile generally 2-3mm overall. The tassled ends have been later attached. The top border has been cut and reduced by half. There is some wear to the border in the lower corner otherwise the border is in overall good condition. There are numerous areas of scattered re-piling *additional photographs of the reverse showing these is available from the department*, for a particular example of this see lower left of the top right hand quadrant. There are some small stitched repairs, for example see the top right hand quadrant, the centre of the carpet, the lower left quadrant and the centre of the bottom. There is a diagonal strip of foundation exposed running from the lower left corner. This carpet is a beautiful and rare example of its type and it would benefit from a very thorough clean. It is recommended to view this work in the person or for further images please contact Harry Grenfell (harry.grenfell@laitexier.com)
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There is a Salor main carpet of similar age, size, proportion and use of spacious field design, 'Holbein' border and circular 'Salor' Gols in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, bequeathed by Joseph V. McMullan, this example differs to the present lot as it has five columns of Gols rather than six. Another example of smaller dimensions can be seen in the Hoffmeister collection Tsareva, E.,Turkmen Carpets Masterpeices of Steppe Art, from 16th to 19th Centuries The Hoffmeister Collection, pl. 1, pg. 28., 2011, Stuttgart, this example with five columns of eleven Gols.

For a similar example sold at auction see Bonhams, London, 8 April 2008, lot 183

Possibly acquired by Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton or🐷 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe in the late 19th or early 20th century