The Pip Rau collection of ikats, embroideries and costumes, auctioned at Olympia in London from 3 February–1 March, achieved outstanding results, attracting strong interest both locally and globally. Comprising 191 lots, this sale was dedicated to the late dealer and collector of Asian textiles, Pip Rau (1938–2024). When Rau opened her small Islington… Read more »
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.
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.
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 »
Results from Christie’s and Bonham’s from day one of Islamic Art Week London, 21 April 2015
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 »
The European rug auction scene, after its long summer break, gets back in the swing of things.
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kilims and sumakhs from most of the major carpet weaving areas, as well as Scandinavian folk textiles, many of them unpublished and from private collections.
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 »
‘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 »
