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FRONTLINES
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LETTERS
Expanding on the elements of a textile fragment in the Hermitage Museum, and a plea for coverage in HALI of the ins-and-outs of LACMA’s ‘Bellini’ carpet acquisition |
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NEWS
The Doris Duke Central Persian ‘proto-Polonaise’ silk rug which sold for $4.5 million at Christie’s in New York; a farewell to the late Charles Lave; Turkmentreffen 2008 |
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ENEWS
A summary of the best on www.hali.com and the rest of the web |
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BENCHMARKS
In which ‘experts’ identify key attributes of good rugs and textiles |
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PROFILE
John Carswell interviews Edmund de Unger, the renowned Hungarian-born collector of Islamic art in general and classical oriental rugs in particular, at his home in Surrey |
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MASTERPIECE
A 9th century Abbasid lustreware tile fragment from Iraq, in the collection of the Islamic Art Museum in Berlin, presented by former Deputy Director Jens Kröger |
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FEATURES
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QIZILBASH FROM KHORASAN?
A Turkmen multiple-göl main carpet from the George and Marie Hecksher Collection
Peter Poullada
An exploration by the author into the origins of this carpet, which appears in the exhibition ‘For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving’ at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, within the complex of tribes in and around northern Khorasan in the 18th and 19th centuries |
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THE BENAKI MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART
The Collections of the Islamic Art Museum in Athens
Angelos Delivorrias, Anna Ballian, Mina Moraitou, Maria Sardi, Julia Theologou, Anastasia Ozoline, Yannis Sartzetakis & John Carswell
A wide-ranging curatorial overview of the Museum’s collections of Islamic textiles, early carpet fragments, woodwork, metalwork and ceramics, most of which were acquired in the early years of the 20th century by Alexandrine Greek collector and connoisseur Anthony Benaki and are now housed in a recently opened building in Kerameikos |
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RADIANCE FROM THE RAINFOREST
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Heidi King
Examining a selection from among more than seventy Pre-Columbian featherworks, some published here for the first time, currently on view in a special loan display curated by the author in the new AOA galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York |
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FIRST AMONG EQUALS
Anthony Hazledine
A first-hand exploration into the life and passions of the pioneering Turkish surgeon Dr Ayan Gülgönen, who has amassed an impressive collection of Anatolian kilims and pileweaves |
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CONTEXT
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EXHIBITIONS
The Hajji Baba Club’s public exhibition ‘Timbuktu to Tibet’, which marks the Club’s 75th anniversary, at the New-York Historical Society, and the celebratory brunch and kilim spectacular held by Marilyn and Marshall Wolf at the Nazmiyal Gallery; Moroccan textiles at the Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York; a diverse array of bags and containers from across the Islamic world at the Minasian Rug Company in Evanston, Illinois; early Paracas mantles from Peruvian public collections at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris |
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CALENDAR
Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences |
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AUCTION PRICE GUIDE
Recent sales in London and Massachusetts |
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BOOKS
Margaret Young Sanchez reviews Lena Bjerregaard’s Chachapoya Textiles: The Laguna de Los Cóndores Textiles in the Museo Leymebamba, Chachapoyas, Peru; Jenny Balfour-Paul welcomes the English edition of Dominique Cardon’s Natural Dyes: Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science; Jens Kröger interprets Werner Brüggemann’s Der Orientteppich: Einblicke In Seine Geschichte Und ästhetik |
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PARTING SHOTS
London to Lower Saxony via San Francisco and New York |
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FIRST VIEW
A splendid early 19th century Uzbek suzani embroidery from the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, currently on display in ‘Colours of the Silk Road: Suzani Embroideries from Uzbekistan’ |
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