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'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
Ellsworth sales: 100% for the King of Ming
During Asian Art Week in New York, from 17 March to 21 March 2015, some two thousand works of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian and European art from the collection of the late American scholar, dealer and connoisseur, Robert Hatfield Ellis (a.k.a. ‘The…
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
Rugs & Carpets at Nagel
The star piece of the upcoming Rugs & Carpets, Ethnographic Art sale at Nagel in Stuttgart on 24 March is lot 25, a Tekke animal tree asmalyk. From the collection of former Stuttgart district Court councillor Burkhardt, it is a new discovery, becoming one of only 14 known…
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
Bausback at TEFAF
Specialist oriental and collector’s carpet company, Franz Bausback of Mannheim are to show an important South German antique carpet collection at TEFAF Maastricht, 13 – 33 March 2015.
Ming Chinese Carpets of the Forbidden City
Michael Franses tells the remarkable story of his 34-year quest to find the missing 16th-century classical Chinese carpets of the Chinese Imperial household.
