Fall Americana Auction

Turkmen Bokhara Oriental Carpet.

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Start price: $70

Estimated price: $150 - $250

Buyer's premium:

62 x 43 inches. Wear to central area.

Obtained from decendants of Robert Lauent. This item was a prized possesion of Hamilton Easter Fields (1873-1922). A pioneer in collecting American folk art, Fields was a well known artist, teacher and critic as well as a dealer of antiques in the late nineteenth early twentieth century. This item was bequeathed to arist Robert Lauent (1890-1970), who was Field’s protege and life long friend. Years later, Robert Laurent founded the Hamilton Easter Field Foundation