Vermont's "Caswell Carpet Cat" Folk Art Hand-Hooked Rug, Illinois, Early 1900s
If you have an antique hooked rug featuring a dog, cat or horse, please contact us!
This rug was made after Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell's hooked rug, the cat now known as the "Caswell Carpet Cat". (Caswell lived in Castleton, VT, 1805-1899). Note the similarities between our rug with it's striped background and bold border when compared to Caswell's original hooked rug which sold in 2017 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine. Click here to compare. There is no doubt the piece in this listing was copied from Caswell's original.
An identical cat (without background & border) appears as part of Caswell's embroidered masterpiece, "Caswell's Carpet", now at in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click here to learn more.
If you have an antique hooked rug featuring a dog, cat or horse, please contact us!
This rug was made after Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell's hooked rug, the cat now known as the "Caswell Carpet Cat". (Caswell lived in Castleton, VT, 1805-1899). Note the similarities between our rug with it's striped background and bold border when compared to Caswell's original hooked rug which sold in 2017 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine. Click here to compare. There is no doubt the piece in this listing was copied from Caswell's original.
An identical cat (without background & border) appears as part of Caswell's embroidered masterpiece, "Caswell's Carpet", now at in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click here to learn more.
If you have an antique hooked rug featuring a dog, cat or horse, please contact us!
This rug was made after Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell's hooked rug, the cat now known as the "Caswell Carpet Cat". (Caswell lived in Castleton, VT, 1805-1899). Note the similarities between our rug with it's striped background and bold border when compared to Caswell's original hooked rug which sold in 2017 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine. Click here to compare. There is no doubt the piece in this listing was copied from Caswell's original.
An identical cat (without background & border) appears as part of Caswell's embroidered masterpiece, "Caswell's Carpet", now at in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click here to learn more.