Sotheby’s dedicated autumn sale of 155 carpet lots, the second since the auctioneer’s return to specialist rug sales in the Bond Street rooms, is strong on Chinese and East Turkestan pieces and also includes a small Ushak Lotto, a 17th-century Esfahan, a Type-C Star Kazak, a Mohtashem Kashan and a signed Zareh Kum Kapı prayer rug. There are numerous… Read more »
HALI’s picks of antique carpets and textiles from the inaugural display at the New York International Carpet Show.
ARTS (Antique Rug & Textile Show) East returns to Boston for the second time, 10-12 June 2016.
Highlights from the upcoming auction on 11 June 2016 of collectors carpets at Henry’s Auktionshaus in Mutterstadt, Germany
From 21 January to 8 May 2016, Berlin’s Bode Museum is host to an important exhibition, ‘The Madonna of the Würth Collection and Masterworks of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’. It is devoted to the work of Hans Holbein the Younger (ca. 1497-1543), one of the greatest portrait painters of the Renaissance, whose name has of course also become synonymous with certain early types of classical Anatolian carpets.
‘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.
Austrian Auction Company’s first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online.
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.
Sotheby’s auction in New York on 12 April 2016 of 282 lots of ‘European Decorative Arts from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts’ includes a substantial number of carpets, tapestries and textiles from both East and West.
‘Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes’ opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016.
