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The first of three single owner auctions to offer the collection of Ignazio Vok took place at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 11 April 2015. Daniel Shaffer reports.

'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
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
The Vok Collection: Selection 1 auction will take place on 11 April 2015 at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden.

Austria Auction Company will be holding an online sale of rugs and kilims on 18 April, a first for the auction house.

Skinner's Boston sale of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets on March 28th, assembled by Lawrence Kearney, features more than 300 lots of antique rugs, carpets, and textiles from most major areas of the 'Rug Belt'.