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Christie's Spring Carpet Sale, London, 8 April 2014
In the past year the structure of the top end of the international specialist rug auction market has seen some radical changes – both in the wake of the triumph of SNY’s single owner Clark Collection sale last summer and the very successful follow-up of Carpets from…
Ancient & Modern Award Winners Announced
Master of tent studies, Dr Peter Alford Andrews has been granted the £1000 Ancient & Modern award for 2014. The £500 Godfrey Goodwin Prize for the runner-up goes to Oxford biochemistry graduate, Harriet Rix.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
Fine Antique Oriental Rugs II, Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 15 March 2014
Udo Langauer’s second sale of ‘Erlesene Antike Orientteppiche’ will be held at Vienna’s Novomatic Forum at 4.00 pm on Saturday 15th March.
Lucy Upward · 3 min
Buddhist Traditions and Transformations at The Met, NY
'Devotional Buddhist Art of North India and Tibet', a selection of extraordinary Himalayan paintings, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts, ancient and modern, is on show until June 8, 2014 in the South Asian Art Gallery at The Met.
Allegorical and Art Nouveau tapestries at Nagel, Stuttgart
Nagel’s Fine Arts and Antiques sale in Stuttgart, 26 – 27 February 2014, includes two notable German tapestries of greatly different periods and styles.
