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Sotheby’s London, 3 November 2015, ‘Rugs and Carpets from Distinguished Collections’
‘Rugs and Carpets from Distinguished Collections’ at Sotheby’s in London on 3 November 2015 marks a return to the auctioneer’s New Bond Street rooms for sales dedicated to oriental rugs, carpets and associated textiles.
Volkmann-Treffen 2015
The 2015 edition of Volkmann-Treffen will take place on 16–18 October 2015 at the Museum für Islamische Kunst/Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min![Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 3: The Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fx7bsynha%2Fproduction%2F79b2fcd58444e078f48364e19d944efc01758232-600x1228.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26fit%3Dmax%26auto%3Dformat&w=3840&q=75)
Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 3: The Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett
The second of Ian Bennett's in-depth articles on the carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France was published in HALI 34 (1987). In he discusses the remaining holdings of 16th and 17th century classical carpets from Safavid Persia at the MHT, with…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min![Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 2: Ten Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fx7bsynha%2Fproduction%2F4375098c4772453c805fd5eba5687c723876ab19-551x730.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26fit%3Dmax%26auto%3Dformat&w=3840&q=75)
Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 2: Ten Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett
In the first of his three in-depth articles on the extraordinary carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France, published in HALI 33 (1987) Ian Bennett discusses ten 16th and 17th century classical carpets from Safavid Persia, with additional comment…
Imperial Puzzle: Sixteenth-Century Persian Spiral-Vine Carpets with Animals, by Christine Klose
Made possible by careful research and persistent 'detective' work, tThe late Dr Christine Klose's reconstruction of the extent of a highly regarded design type of early Safavid ‘Hunting’ carpets through a comparative survey of known carpets and carpet fragments.
