Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
The Bernheimer ‘Vase’ fragment climbs again
My Editor’s choice this week is the Bernheimer Safavid ‘Vase’-technique fragment, which made $448,000 at Sotheby’s Magnum Opus evening sale. It is still rising in value 30 years on.
How do we know the age of an antique carpet? In part, size matters
Few antique carpets are dated, and patterns were repeated for generations. Format, though, can tell us a good deal about when, and for whom, a carpet was made. Michael Franses joins the knots from Olympia Auctions via Belgrade to Iran
Michael Franses · 5 min
How did kashmiri shawls transform global fashion?
A special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, explores the luxurious splendour of Kashmiri shawls and their influence on global fashion and trade. Curator Aimée Froom, alongside Anushka Hosain and Chaeri Lee, guides us through the treasures on display.
Aimée Froom · 10 min
Highlights from the Christopher Legge Collection
As part of Christopher Legge's collection comes to sale at Mallam's in Oxford, HALI has picked out a number of pieces that have attracted our interest
Interwoven at HAB Budapest paired historic carpets with contemporary art
At HAB, the Hungarian Art & Business centre in Budapest, 'Interwoven: Stories Thread by Thread' brought antique carpets and contemporary paintings into direct conversation, asking how textiles and canvases record memory, belief and cultural experience across centuries
