A GEORGE III MOORFIELDS CARPET DESIGNED BY ROBERT ADAM, CIRCA 1770
SOLD for $100,000 on 27 January 2021
Having three rectangular panels, the central one with a circular fan rosette medallion flanked by panels of octagonal rosette medallions all on a dark brown to russet brown ground with delicate ribbon-tied honey suckle swags, all within a Greek-key inner border, a minor guilloche border and a delicate scroll and anthemion main border Approximately 34 ft. 8 in. x 14 ft. (1057 cm. x 427 cm.)
Provenance
Possibly commissioned by George Talbot, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury (1719- 1787), or John Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot (1749 –1793), who inherited Ingestre Hall in 1786.
Possibly thence by descent at Ingestre Hall, Sta?ordshire, until sold by John George Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury (1914-1980); Sotheby’s, London, 18 February 1972, lot 15.
Acquired from C. John, London, 26 January 1982.
Literature
G. Nares, ‘Ingestre Hall Part III’, Country Life, 31 October 1957, p. 926, fig. 7 (illustrated in the Yellow Drawing Room).
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, May 1959, General Notes, vol. 107, no. 503, pp. 442-444.
Andrews, Anne; "A Short History of Ingestre", Stafford, England, 2013, p. 24-25.