£12,600
Auction: 19 April 2023 at 11:00 BST
watercolour on four conjoined sheets of squared paper, depicting garden flowers in a repeat pattern, each sheet signed verso C. F. A. VOYSEY ARCHITECT/ 6 CARLTON HILL N.W. and with printed Tomkinsons Carpets Ltd. stamp
Exhibited: The Fine Art Society et al, London C.F.A. Voysey: Designs for Tomkinson & Adam Carpets, 2013, no. 31 ('Garden Design (Four Sheets)')
Literature: Durant S. The Decorative Designs of C.F.A. Voysey, Lutterworth Press 2017, p. XX, no. 56 illus.
Note: Carpet designs by Voysey for Tomkinsons were designed to set up a Jacquard weaving machine. The colour sequence would have been transferred to a sequence of punched cards by a technician, who would use, in this instance, 14 strands of different coloured wools to produce the design shown. Each minute square represents a single carpet tuft.