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The Thyssen Mughal Hunting Carpet at Sotheby's
This mid-17th century North Indian Mughal carpet, until recently furnishing the Swiss home of the late Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, sold at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, London, on 3 July 2013 (lot 23) for £314,000, approximately three times its lower estimate.
Austria’s Newest Auctioneer
The first sale organised by Udo Langauer's new Austria Auction Company (AAC) will take place in downtown Vienna on 21 September 2013 at 4 pm, at Novomatic Forum in Friedrichstraße. The inaugural consignment will include between 180 and 200 high quality collectable antique…
Daniel Shaffer · 3 min
Above all - the Material Culture rug and textile sale
Material Culture in Philadelphia offers visitors a unique sample on its old and new rugs and textiles on the 4th July weekend at huge discounts
Ben Evans · 1 min
Fabulous textiles on show in Cleveland
On 30 June 2013, The Cleveland Museum of Art opened its new North Wing galleries with an inaugural exhibition ‘Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900’, which reveals the museum's exceptional oriental textiles collection to the world for the first time in almost a decade
Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 4: The remaining Classical Carpets, by Ian Bennett
The third of Ian Bennett’s in-depth articles on the Oriental carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France was published in HALI 35 (1987). The article features the non-Persian holdings of 16th and 17th century classical carpets - from Spain, Egypt,…
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