Arts and Crafts Carpet

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland

Literature

Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and
America, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978, p.146, pl.189
Sarah B. Sherill, Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America, Abbeville
Press, 1996, p.342-3, pl.358, 360

Description / Expertise

The American furniture designer Gustav Stickley sold Donegal carpets at his Craftsman showrooms in New York and Boston.
In his 1909 and 1912 catalogues, a similar carpet is illustrated.
In the 1910 issue he states that these rugs are designed by Voysey and his school, though in the 1912 edition he writes ‘…made for us after our own designs and colour schemes’.
In his residence in New Jersey, Stickley had several carpets of the same design as the present example, one of which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.