VERY RARE LATE 19TH to EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN FOLK ART ANTIQUE COLOR WOOL HOOKED RUG, with COVERED BRIDGE, CHURCH, WHIMSICAL TREES, DOG, FIGURES & PERIOD WOVEN MUSLIN COTTON STRIPED BACKING

(Circa 1900-1925)

Early 20th century American antique primitive handmade, hand woven figurative wool hooked rugs  

DIMENSIONS: 

  37 ½" Width x 27" Height 

Weight: 3 lbs. 12 oz.

DESCRIPTION:

Offered for your review and consideration is this utterly fantastic, simply amazing and in incredibly well-preserved overall, near originally constituted antique condition, late 19th to early 20th century American folk art antique colored wool, handmade hooked rug, featuring a bucolic, near dream-like New England landscape, seemingly bursting with color and complete with a northern New England covered wooden bridge, white clapboard church, stone walls, gnarled old trees, flowers and several figures, as well as a dog. The period rug has no foul smells and doesn't suffer loss to any of its edges, its black framed borders or even more importantly, in the pictorial field. The area above the wood covered bridge consists of the foliage of trees swirling around like tumultuous wind currents or resembling the rings of receding tidal pools. By any account, this rare hooked rug landscape is an exceptionally rare piece, most likely realized in the late 19th to early 20th century, somewhere between 1890-1920. The maker of the hooked rug seemed particularly focused on enthusiastically portraying the natural bounty, overwhelming beauty and wealth of New England. A veritable American antique folk art masterwork. Lush, bright and with gorgeous, brilliant, vivid colors, this wonderful textile art treasure appears to have been rolled up and protected for the more than 100-130 years since it was initially realized. It is nearly, if not, as it was originally constituted. It is a rare feat indeed for a work of textile art to not have the kind of wear we're accustomed to seeing, when a rug such as this is placed on the floor and walked upon. The presence of dogs, heeled shoes, dirt, sand, wine and food all would have contributed to the hooked rug's certain depreciation and ultimate demise over time. This was not the case with this incredible work of masterful rug making. It appears never to have been used as a rug or was placed on the floor of a home without pets or children, and away from direct sunlight, since it has virtually no wear or color depreciation at all to speak of. As clean as anyone could ever expect an antique hooked rug to still be. An American folk art masterwork in nearly immaculate, pristine condition. Beyond gorgeous. It won't disappoint. 

 

CONDITION:

Very Good to Excellent overall antique condition.