The Spring Islamic Week sale of 'Rugs and Carpets including Distinguished Collections' at Sotheby's in New Bond Street has been brought forward by one day to avoid a clash with Islamic and Orientalist art sales. The sale, now scheduled for the afternoon of Monday 23 April…
Daniel Shaffer
The Spring Islamic Week sale of 'Rugs and Carpets including Distinguished Collections' at Sotheby's in New Bond Street has been brought forward by one day to avoid a clash with Islamic and Orientalist art sales. The sale, now scheduled for the afternoon of Monday 23 April 2018, includes a further twenty historic Turkish village carpets and fragments (and one from Khorasan), from the Christopher Alexander collection, the first tranche of which sold so successfully last November.
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