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Princely Prices: Sotheby's Treasures
Timed to coincide with the last day of the London Masterpiece Fair, Sotheby's prestigious evening sale on 3 June 2013 of Treasures, Princely Taste, consisting of 49 well-provenanced works of art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, totalled £9,218,850. Among the…
For the Record. Rippon Boswell's Lakai suzani
A new world record price at auction for a Central Asian suzani of any description was paid for on 25 May 2013 for the catalogue cover piece in Rippon Boswell's spring sale, lot 197, a large, densely intricate, blazingly colourful mandala-like ‘Lakai’ silk on silk embroidery…
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
For the Record: The Bacri-Clark Kerman Sickle Leaf Throne Carpet
Michael Franses asks whether the Bacri-Clark throne carpet will be remembered for a world-record price ‒ US $33,765,000 ‒ or judged by the glowing words written about it each of the many times it has been exhibited?
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
Eye-Catching Kilims at Netherhampton, 10 July 2013
Netherhampton Salerooms' auction of Carpets, Rugs and Textiles in Salisbury, England on 10 July 2012 includes the the second part of a European private collection of kilims, mainly Anatolian.
More Clark Classical Carpets from SNY's Record Breaking 5 June Sale
The world record setting Clark sickle leaf Kerman carpet, the massive Lafoes Esfahan, and the extraordinarily rare and beautiful Cairene round carpet, have hogged the headlines, but there were also another 22 lots sold for astonishing prices in Sotheby's 100% successful sale…
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