Henry’s Carpet Collection
Highlights from the upcoming auction on 11 June 2016 of collectors carpets at Henry’s Auktionshaus in Mutterstadt, Germany
News: Persian carpets
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On Sacred Ground
‘Suolo sacro. Tappeti in pittura (XV – XIX secolo)’ is a spring exhibition to be held at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia’s Via Brera premises in Milan from 6 April–2 July 2016. The exhibition will feature 25 rare antique (15th-19th century) oriental carpets from Tabibnia’s incomparable holdings.
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Morning Prayers on a Northwest Persian Long Rug
The top lot of Sotheby’s London recent (19 April 2016) Orientalist sale features a northwest Persian long rug.
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Ballard Rugs Exhibit in St Louis, March–May 2016
‘The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs’ is on display at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA, from 6 March – 8 May 2016.
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Alice de Rothschild’s Vase Carpet Trio at Christie’s
For Christie’s next major London carpet sale at King Street on 19 April 2016, head of department Louise Broadhurst has secured the consignment by ‘A Nobleman’ of three previously unknown and unpublished Safavid ‘vase-technique’ carpets.
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Rothschild Vase Carpets and much more at Christie’s, London, 19 April
Christie’s spring Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction on 19 April 2016 in London is headlined by an amazing trio of 17th-century Kerman ‘Vase-technique’ carpets that were once the property of Baroness Alice de Rothschild, but there is far more to the King Street sale.
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London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) 14-17 April 2016
LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.
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Kashmir shawls and other antique textiles from the Nemati Collection. Drouot Paris, 11 April 2016
On 11 April 2016 at Drouot in Paris, Gros & Delettrez will offer a large and varied selection of 239 lots of Kashmir shawls and other Indian, Persian, Turkish, North African and European textiles from The Nemati Collection, New York. Among the 239 lots featured will be a broad range of 18th and 19th century… Read more »
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Kössl at Schloss Laxenburg
‘Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes’ opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016.
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BADA Fair, London
The annual British Antique Dealers Association Fair is open until 15 March at Duke of York Square on London’s King’s Road. “The BADA Fair represents our aspirational community for fine art, design and antiques, providing an outstanding opportunity for collectors to meet and purchase from some of the country’s leading dealers” comments Marco Forgione, new… Read more »
