Hooked Rug with Prancing Horse

antique horse hooked rug white-painted bench table

antique horse hooked rug

Tear Sheet


Pennsylvania

Dated "1880"

Wool and cotton rag on burlap

37” x 54 ½”; mounted for hanging

The horse on a striated background framed by a zig-zag border; dated lower left

Literature: J. Kopp and K. Kopp, American Hooked and Sewn Rugs: Folk Art Underfoot (1974), p. 63, fig. 82.

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