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Sotheby’s Autumn sale of Arts of the Islamic World features a selection of paintings, manuscripts, carpets, and textiles, exemplifying the broad artistic traditions of the Muslim World.

Nagel Auctions, Stuttgart will present a series of five tapestries from the Imperial House of Habsburg, in the Fine Arts and Antiques auction, taking place 9-10 October 2013.
Lucy Upward · 2 min
HALI and CORNUCOPIA announce Ancient & Modern: A Prize for Original Research also sponsored by Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's. The eighth annual grant of £1,000 for a research project to be awarded to a candidate younger than 25 or over the age of sixty.
Lucy Upward · 1 min
Udo Langauer’s Austria Auction Company’s inaugural sale at the Novomatic Forum in Friedrichstraße on September 21, 2013 has a number of worthy collector carpets among the 200 plus lots on offer.

Among the 120 diverse lots in Koller's carpet sale in Zurich on 19 September 2013 are a number of attractive and interesting tribal and village rugs, not all in prime condition, but generally at enticingly low estimates, as well as a dramatic Uzbek suzani.

'Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800,' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to 5 January 2014, is a staggering story of hidden treasures covering more than three centuries of art from all corners of the world.