An open field in warm gold holds a scatter of small floral sprigs in lavender, rose, and celadon, contained within a shaped, scalloped-corner outline. The border repeats a meandering vine with lavender blossoms, pale pink flowers, and soft green leaves against the same golden ground, echoing the field's palette without a distinct outer guard stripe.
Provenance: The Collection of Diane and Norman Bernstein, The Lindens, Washington, DC
An ivory field is organized by a diagonal lattice of pale blue banding into a grid of large rosettes, each with a red and blue starburst center radiating from a cream core and framed by a scalloped golden-yellow ring. Smaller cruciform palmettes in gold and blue fill the interstices where the lattice lines cross, and the whole composition is enclosed by a narrow floral border in matching blue, gold, and cream tones.
A pale ivory ground is overlaid with fine trellis lattice work formed of trailing garlands, each intersection scattered with small pink and blue floral sprays. At the center an elongated oval medallion in soft gold tones frames a bouquet of white and cream blossoms, echoed by matching floral clusters in each corner set beneath a narrow border of ribboned laurel and rose sprigs on a peach-toned band.
The field is organized as an interlaced dark brown lattice over an ivory ground, each octagonal compartment holding a small bouquet of pink, coral, and blue flowers with green sprigs. A narrow ivory guard band separates the field from the outer border, where an undulating vine bears rosettes and leaves in coral, gold, and pale blue against a warm ochre ground. The trellis repeat is consistent across the field, with paired floral sprays alternating in orientation within adjoining cells.
Louis XV Period
The field is laid out as an all-over trellis of crossed leafy sprays in ivory and sage, each intersection marked by a small pink and cream rosette on an olive-green ground. A wide border in deep brown carries a repeating anthemion-and-scroll motif in tones of gold and ochre, framed by narrow plain guard stripes and an outer band of striped blue and tan flat-woven edging. The pattern runs with quiet regularity across the field, broken only by the crisper, more saturated palette of the border.
Directoire Period
Jansen Aubusson
A pale celadon field is overlaid with a fine trellis of intersecting diagonal lines, each diamond compartment centered by a small dash motif rendered in soft ivory and mauve tones. Pale ribboned garlands of blue and yellow flowers, tied at intervals with looping bows, run along all four borders against a muted sage ground, framed by narrow ivory guard stripes. Two corners of the field show a brighter, almost golden sheen where the light catches the surface differently from the rest of the ground.
Louis XVI Beauvais factory
The sage-green field is scattered with a small repeating diaper of gold fleur-de-lis and shield-like emblems set among a fine tone-on-tone leafy vine pattern. Two gilt cartouches with foliate scrollwork sit side by side near the center, their interiors left blank as if awaiting an initial or crest. A deeper teal border frames the field, edged with a delicate gold guilloche and laurel-swag band running along all four sides.
