A MILLIONAIRE’S OLD RUGS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7

A MILLIONAIRE’S OLD RUGS.

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan recently added £20,000 worth of Persian rugs'to his collection, which even before being thus supplemented was considered by experts to be the finest and most valuable private one in the world.

The gem of his new acquisitions is a magnificent silken carpel, woven at Ispahan in the early years of the eighteenth century. It measures twenty-one feet by thirteen feet, and the price asked and paid for was £2,200. The centre is of beautiful design of intertwining curves ami vines in blue on a red, back-ground, surrounded by sixteen medallions, each of a different pattern. The border follows the scheme of intertwining loaves and vines.

A carpet of the royal Tabris pattern measuring fifteen by eleven feet, is one of the least costly—the price paid being £1,(500 —yet seldom have fingers knotted tufts of silk into greater beauty. At all events, such is the opinion of Mr. Morgan, to whom rug devotees listen as eagerly' as do those who would read the financial future. Its beauty is of the quietest order. The centre is a medallion of goldish hue on a ground of deepest rose,