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Hardwick Hall carpets are similar both in color and design to REFERENCES
the Widener carpet, although the elaborate fmials appear in 191Q Valentiner: 48, repro.
only two of their four corners. Similar borders also appear in
the large Bernheimer Polonaise carpet, illustrated in The 1911 Ruge: 214, fig. 6.
Bernheimer Family Collection of Carpets (Christie's, London, 14 !935 Widener: 129.
February 1996, lot 50), and a small pair, one of which was for- 1938-1939 Pope: 3: 2394-2395; 4: pi. 1247.
merly owned by J. Paul Getty, illustrated in Carpets from the J. 1940 Ackerman: 59.
Paul Getty Collection (Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 1990,
lot 2); its companion in the Cleveland Museum of Art is illus- 1959 Dilley.
trated in that sales catalogue, fig. 3. 1960 Pope: pi. 145.
17. This carpet is discussed and illustrated in King 1976, 1968 Spuhler: 200-201, no. 104.
303-306. 1973 Welch: 19, 69 repro.

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