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Salvago Collection Ottoman Textiles, Sotheby's London 26 April 2017
Sotheby’s London sale of Arts of the Islamic World on Wednesday 26th April 2017 includes twenty lots (139-158) of Ottoman and East Mediterranean complex silks, velvets and embroideries from the outstanding collection of Argine Benaki Salvago, grande dame of Alexandrian…
Australian War Memorial in Canberra buys Enver Pasha’s ‘Gallipoli’ rug at auction
The sale of the Jacques Cadry Collection of oriental carpets, manuscripts and icons at Mossgreen Auctions in Sydney on 2 April 2017 set new records for sales in Australia and pointed to some emerging trends. Susan Scollay reports : Jacques Cadry (1910–2003) was a Persian-born…
Daniel Shaffer · 6 min
Tapestry, Carpets & Textiles, Christie's London, April 2017
The last week of April 2017 sees the textile arts represented in three separate Christie's auctions. First, at King Street on on Tuesday 25th, 'Noble & Private Collections I' includes a number of European tapestries, notable among them a 16th century Franco-Flemish…
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Classical Carpets and Renaissance Paintings in Venice
A major exhibition, ‘Sérénissime Trame: Carpets from the Zaleski Collection and Renaissance Paintings’, opens on Thursday 23 March 2017 at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro in Venice.
Carpets and Islamic Art at the MIA, Doha
'Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India’, the current exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar (15 March–4 November 2017), brings a new perspective to the MIA’s remarkable permanent collection.
