A Louis XIV Savonnerie carpet fragment (153 x 87cm)

153 x 87cm // 5' x 2'10"

Lourdet Workshop at Chaillot

• final quarter 17th C

Provenance: Hans Joachim Homm collection

CF Carpets of the Sun King page 46 Hali Magazine 227 

>>> Link to our other smaller fragment from the exact same original carpet

Ref. 18706A

Extract from The Georgian Group newsletter (31/10/2025):
Le Trésor retrouvé du Roi-Soleil 1-8 February 2026, Grand Palais, Paris Curated by Emmanuelle Federspiel and Antonin Macé de Lépinay of the Mobilier national and former Georgian Group Trustee, Wolf Burchard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Grand Palais in Paris is mounting a short-run special exhibition about Louis XIV’s Grande Galerie Savonnerie carpets, entitled Le trésor retrouvé du Roi-Soleil. The exhibition will run for a week from February 1-8, 2026, and – for the first time ever – show 30 Grande Galerie carpets rolled out together, as originally intended, when they were made more than 350 years ago.