Rug, "La Salle Wilton" pattern Manufacturer: Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company (American, 1914–1929)

ca. 1928

American Decorative Arts

Not on view

Medium

Wool

Dimensions

27 × 54 in. (68.6 × 137.2 cm)

Credit Line

John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959

Accession Number

2010.158.12

Geography

Manufactured in Thompsonville, Connecticut, or Clinton, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Textiles

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Denis Gallion and Daniel Morris, New York, by 1986–88; John C. Waddell, New York 1988–2010; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Sarah D. Coffin, Stephen Harrison, and Emily M. Orr, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017), 131, 328, no. 22, fig. 170.
  • "Acquisitions," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2011.pdf (accessed March 1, 2012).
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 35, no. 14.
  • Doretta Davanzo Poli, Twentieth-century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures (Milan: Skira, 2007), 271, ill.
  • Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986), 133, ill.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

rugs

Marks

“la salle / wilton / 15364 / Color: 6 / made by bigelow-hartford / carpet co. / estab. 1825 / Mills at Thompsonville, Conn. and Clinton, Mass,” on label affixed to back; “27 × 54,” stamped on label

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