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Rossi & Rossi, leading dealers in South Asian art, will reopen on 4 December in new premises at 27 Dover Street in London.

An imperial embroidered thangka has sold for an unprecedented $45,157,824 (HK$348,440,000) to a Chinese collector at Christie’s Hong Kong.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
Asian Art dealer Michael Woerner will exhibit a group of six early Tibetan rugs, formerly from the Robert P. & Alice Piccus Collection, at Cologne Fine Art, Koelnmesse, 18th – 23rd November 2014.
Rachel Meek · 1 min
On 26 November 2014 an imperial Yongle silk thangka from a private American collection will go on sale at Christie’s Hong Kong in the Important Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, with an estimate of HK$80,000,000.

Woven Languages: Indonesian Ikat Textiles from the Peter ten Hoopen Collection has just opened at the Museo do Oriente, Lisbon, 23 October 2014–25 January 2015.

This autumn Japanese Boro patchwork robes and textiles are seen to be taking centre stage in Portugal. Two exhibitions focussing on Japanese culture and design are showing at the Museu do Design e da Moda (MUDE), Lisbon under the title RAW JAPAN, 10 October to 8 February 2015.