Provenance

On 19 February 1790, George IV was charged £400 for a fine Persian carpet for the Throne Room at Carlton House and it is depicted on the floor of that room in Pyne's engraving of 1818. This carpet was made at Moorfields Carpet Manufactory by William Foskett and Thomas Moore Foskett (more commonly known as Thomas Moore), grandsons of Joseph Foskett, who sold George IV £2300 worth of carpets between 1789 an 1792 (PRO Ho.73/19).They produced an estimate of £3800 for carpets at Carlton House in 1789 (RA 25078-25082). This carpet shows the same chracteristic counted warp threads as the other Moorfields carpets. At every tenth knot the warp is of plied white and tan wool. (cf. 'Thomas Moore of Moorfields' by Wendy Hefford in the Burlington Magazine of December 1977)