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Nagel kicks off the Autumn rug season with a hefty sale of 369 lots with a variety of consignments from rugs and textiles, antiques and tribal art and the Islamic pottery collection F. J. Amon.

CSK's summer Arts of India sale on 12 June 2104 includes several dozen Indian and southeast Asian textiles, including antique painted and block printed cotton chintz palampores, export chintzes, embroideries, painted temple cloths and a range of Kashmiri, Persian and European…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Christie's 'Connoisseur's Eye' sale at Rockefeller Center in New York on 20 May 2014 includes a selection of 66 Oriental carpets , mainly larger size high quality Persian decoratives, but with a sprinkling of collectables, fine silks and worn but still beautiful classical…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Henry's auctioneers in Mutterstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of southwestern Germany will hold a special sale of 'Collector's Carpets' on the 1st of June. By no means a household name on the oriental carpet circuit, this 200-lot sale includes several very good…

The annual auction of Arts of the American West is happening at Sotheby’s, New York on 21 May 2014.

Among the European auction houses with 2014 spring season sales including rugs and textiles were Udo Langauer’s Austria Auction Company’s ‘Fine Antique Oriental Rugs I’, Nagel ‘Collector Carpets and Ethnologia’ and Leclere Auctions in the city of Marseilles.