• Facets (new session)
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This is a composite carpet, restored heavily in 1890-91, when three large fragments were attached together. First received on loan from Jane Spencer Brunton on 20 June 1891, and eventually sold to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A) for £300 in 1894. In July 1891, the carpet had been the subject of a negligence lawsuit: while deposited for cleaning with the London furniture firm Maple & Co., the carpet was damaged in an accidental fire. Brunton had originally purchased the carpet from a Mr Donaldson in 1881, for £1,000, and at the trial, the damaged carpet (although patched) was judged still to be worth this sum. The following year, Brunton donated a further fragment to the Museum (38-1892). The original carpet would have measured c. 7.5 x 3.5 metres. Following the damage at Maples, the repair work was done at Chiswick School of Arts and Crafts. Sections of the narrow inner border may have been re-woven at the same time. The V&A holds two further fragments from the same carpet (38-1892 and T.147-1958), and further fragments have been identified in other museum-collections. A matching twin carpet has also been identified, and is in the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. These belong to the same group as the two twin "Emperors' Carpets", one in the same Vienna museum, and the other in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.