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Many Happy Returns
‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ at Sotheby’s in New York on 1 October 2015 is a compact sale – just 194 lots – full of old friends of good quality and provenance.
Textile Snapshots from LAPADA
LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair is currently taking place in Berkeley Square, London. Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer selects some textile highlights
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
Rug and Textile Results from Christie's and Bonhams, London April 2015
Results from Christie's and Bonham's from day one of Islamic Art Week London, 21 April 2015
Rachel Meek · 2 min
Ellsworth sales: 100% for the King of Ming
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…
Ming Chinese Carpets of the Forbidden City
Michael Franses tells the remarkable story of his 34-year quest to find the missing 16th-century classical Chinese carpets of the Chinese Imperial household.
