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Carpet
Manufactory Savonnerie Manufactory
Gustav III so treasured the seven Savonnerie carpets that he received—he may have picked them out himself at the manufactory—that he had the artist Niclas Lafrensen portray him standing on this particular one. Established in an abandoned soap factory outside Paris (hence the name), the Savonnerie was granted a monopoly by Louis XIII in 1627 to supply high-quality knotted-pile carpets to vie with those formerly imported from Persia.
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