Carpet
- Object Name:
- Carpet
- Object ID:
- 1981.075 b
- Date:
- 1854
- Description:
- Brussels Carpet. Machine-woven with a looped pile. Wool pile and hemp (?) warp and weft. The carpet's design features large-scale Rococo swirls and floral motifs in shades of tan, brown, beige (probably originally cream) and shades of red in an omber effect (shaded from one color to the next). The carpet is seamed by hand; the selvedge width is 26.5".
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- W-107 L-115 inches
- Provenance:
- From the parlor of the David-Nichols-Bean-Carey house, Amherst, NH, c. 1854, until the current owners donated it to the society. The donor is the great-great-grandson of Barnabas B. David and Elizabeth Welch Melendy, who owned the house and installed the carpet for the wedding reception of their son, Edward Cornelius David, who married Eliza J. Smith, September 18, 1855.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Carey
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