A deep indigo-black field is scattered with small ivory and tan motifs arranged in loose rows: potted plants, vases, censers, shrines, shelved treasures, and stylized flowering sprays, with four large square medallions of vases and blossoms anchoring the corners. The wide camel-colored border carries a continuous vine with scattered leaves, punctuated by small reserve panels containing bats, vessels, and geometric emblems, framed by narrow black and ivory guard stripes.
An open, unadorned pale camel field is anchored by a single small medallion at center, a scalloped medallion in ivory and green enclosing a stylized shou-like knot in coral. The four corners carry angular dark brown fretwork brackets in a stepped key pattern, echoed in the surrounding border of ivory and brown meander bands flanked by a narrow outer strip of small rosette forms on a dark ground.
An open field in soft taupe carries only a scattering of small floral sprigs rendered in cream, coral, and pale green, leaving most of the ground bare. A pink band frames the field, giving way to a slate-blue outer border filled with a continuous trailing vine of rosettes in cream, gold, and coral tones. The corners of the outer border show larger clustered blossoms where the vine turns.
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
