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On hali.com: This week’s Editor’s Choice explores a Tunisian silk hanging featuring nine niches, which brings together references to mosque architecture and Ottoman tent interiors, with a link to a related example in the Khalili Collection. We also report on the announcement of the 2026 R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award winner: The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog, by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa and Coast Salish contributors. Finally, discover the V&A’s new exhibition, Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires, which traces sixteen centuries of a city at the heart of HALI’s world.
Auctions – It was a busy week for auctions in London. We attended Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World & India sale on 10 November, and previewed the lots ahead of Bonhams’ Islamic and Indian Art sale on 11 November and Christie’s Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Rugs and Carpets sale on 12 November. Discover some of the sales results across our channels.
