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Peabody Essex buys Dutch Chintz collection
The historic Massachusetts seaport of Salem is perhaps best known for the Witch Trials of 1692, brought to life in Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible . However, these days the city is also home to the Peabody Essex Museum , which holds a world-renowned Asian export art…
Rugs and textiles in Sotheby's London Islamic sale
In short, very few, and certainly the smallest rug and carpet consignment in memory. That said, there is a small medallion Ushak rug consigned by 'a German Lady, a Yomut white ground 'tree' asmalyk from a French collection, and the second Tekke embroidered asmalyk in the…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
In Memoriam: David M. Reuben, 1941-2014
London-based oriental carpet collector/dealer David Reuben, especially well known among the Turkmen rug collecting community, died on 25 April 2014 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. David was born in Basra in 1941, leaving Iraq in 1958 to study chemistry at the…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Image conscious: textiles and photographs of India
Richard Mull writes: San Rafael’s Tom Cole is well known to the rug and textile world for his writings on, among other things, Tibetan, Baluch, Turkmen, and other Central Asian material. His photographic talents, however, have been underappreciated. Given his eye for the…
Distant Neighbour, Close Memories: 600 years of Turkish-Polish Relations
As Turkey celebrated her 600-year friendship with Poland – dated from their first recorded treaty in 1414 – Istanbul’s Sakıp Sabancı Museum held an exhibition, recently ended ( 7 March–15 June 2014) , of Ottoman works of art and Polish imitations drawn from both Polish and…
