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Ramayana - Indian Miniature Art from the National Museum New Delhi
Ramayana, Indian Miniature Art from the National Museum, New Delhi offers an opportunity to savour the art of the miniature at The Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels until 18th May 2014.
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.
Daniel Shaffer · 3 min
Don't Miss India: An Exhibition of Photographs of Textiles from the Subcontinent
San Francisco Bay Area antique rug and textile dealer Thomas Cole, who is also an accomplished photographer, has travelled to India several times in recent years, camera in hand. Selections from his photographs have been published on his website , via social media , and in a…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
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,…
Andy Williams’ Navajo blankets make a million
All 61 lots in The Andy Williams Collection of Navajo Blankets (actually 58 blankets and three baskets) on Tuesday 21 May at Sotheby’s in New York found buyers, for a total of just under a million dollars.
