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No reserve at Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 22 August 2017
Austria Auction Company and Udo Langauer's busy schedule of sales of Antique Collector Rugs continues on 22 August 2017 in Vienna.
Carpet Auction at Henry's, Mutterstadt, 10 June 2017
Henry's in Mutterstadt, Germany will hold its 9th International Special Auction of Rugs & Carpets on Saturday 10 June 2017. The 321 lots encompass a wide variety of late 19th and 20th-century Persian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Turkmen rugs.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Teppich Engelhardt at Rippon Boswell, 20 May 2017
The ‘Teppich Engelhardt’ liquidation sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 20 May 2017 marks the end of an era for what was once one of post-war Germany’s largest and best known oriental carpet dealerships, Engelhardt of Mannheim.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
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…
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…
