Kashmir Shawls: Issues in Style and Chronology
An extended article by Jeffrey B. Spurr from the Marketplace section of HALI 203: a special edition devoted to Indian carpets and textiles.
Auctions
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Sotheby’s NY Masterworks 11 December 2014
This year’s offering will feature two significant textiles, a rare and important 16th century Renaissance historical tapestry, The Field of the Cloth of Gold and an equally rare mid 17th century Savonnerie carpet.
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Of Royal and Noble Descent, Sotheby’s London, 24 February
Among the wide range of consignments, including paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, jewellery, objets d’art, and luxury curiosities, ‘all descending from or with a strong connection to royal and aristocratic European collections’, to be offered in Sotheby’s ‘Of Royal and Noble Descent’ sale on 24 February 2015 is a small group of oriental and European carpets.
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Rugs & Carpets at Nagel
The star piece of the upcoming Rugs & Carpets, Ethnographic Art sale at Nagel in Stuttgart on 24 March is lot 25, a Tekke animal tree asmalyk. From the collection of former Stuttgart district Court councillor Burkhardt, it is a new discovery, becoming one of only 14 known examples of this type. An Ushak Lotto… Read more »
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Rug and Textile Results from Christie’s and Bonhams, London April 2015
Results from Christie’s and Bonham’s from day one of Islamic Art Week London, 21 April 2015
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Hammersmith carpet falls short of its own record
This handsome Morris & Co ‘Hammersmith’ Carpet, designed by J.H. Dearle around the time of William Morris’s death in the mid-1890s, failed to beat its own world record price for a Morris & Co carpet, including those designed by the master himself. Once the property of the Barr-Smith family in Adelaide, Australia, as Lot 1041 in Sotheby’s… Read more »
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Nagel’s 40th Anniversary and other September Rug Sales
The European rug auction scene, after its long summer break, gets back in the swing of things.
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Henry’s, Mutterstadt, 7 November 2015
Over the last couple of years, Henry’s auctioneers in the ancient German Rhineland city of Mutterstadt have emerged as enthusiastic international purveyors of traditional old and antique oriental carpets. Their sixth sale comprises pile rugs, kilims and sumakhs from most of the major carpet weaving areas, as well as Scandinavian folk textiles, many of them unpublished and from private collections.
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The Bernheimer Chair Sold at Sotheby’s, London
Consul Otto Bernheimer’s famous chair, an Italian Renaissance-style walnut armchair upholstered with parts of a 16th-century small-pattern Holbein carpet, sold in Sotheby’s London’s evening sale on 24 November 2015, lot 13, for £100,000 ($151,460), at the top of its estimate range. The upholstery of ‘Holbein variant’ carpet fragments with large-pattern motifs in a small-pattern format… Read more »
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Nazmiyal Collection at Bonhams, NY
‘An Exemplary Decorative Antique and Vintage Carpet Collection by Nazmiyal‘ on 4 April 2016 was the first carpet auction of any substance at Bonhams in New York in our memory. The selection was broad, with pile and flatwoven carpets both Oriental and European in origin and ranging in date from the late 16th century to the late 20th century…. Read more »
