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Article: A virtual carpet in Charleston.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Ralph Blakely, a carpet collector in Charleston has sent us an intriguing speculation regarding the presence of Oriental rugs in that city in the eighteenth centruy. He bases his very plausible argument on a comparison of the portraits illustrated here, writing:
Considering the extravagant tastes of the cosmopolitan, sybaritic Charleston rice planters, Oriental carpets would hardly have been omitted from the lists of luxury goods they bought while abroad and shipped home. Yet in the few surviving Charleston inventories from the period there is no mention of Oriental carpets, nor do any such carpets, or fragments of them, remain in Charleston.
Intriguing ...
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... ... his first wife, Alice P. Copley. He is survived by his wife ... Mary Jane Hofrichter of Charleston, Lou Ann Atkins of Madison ... Pa.; brother, Clifford Copley of Charleston, Richard Copley of Bear, Del.; three grandchildren ...
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