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Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries auction at Dorotheum Vienna

Dorotheum Vienna presents Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries on Tuesday 16 September 2014, with viewing from 11-16 September.

Nagel Stuttgart, Rugs, Carpets & Ethnographic Art, 9 September 2014

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.

Henry’s Mutterstadt, Collector Carpets Auction, 1 June 2014

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 antique carpets, most notably lot 7057, a superb 18th century Yarkand wool carpet… Read more »

Fine Persian town rugs in Copenhagen at Bruun Rasmussen’s February 2014 sale

Copenhagen art auctioneers Bruun Rasmussen’s first international sale of the year on 26 February 2014 included a good selection of fine 20th century Persian workshop pieces.

Dorotheum Rug & Textile auction, 25 February 2014

The auction ‘Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries’ at Vienna’s Palais Dorotheum on 25 February 2014 (4pm) offers a selection of pieces from many different countries.

Some antique carpet and textile highlights at Rippon Boswell’s 30 November 2013 auction

The Friday afternoon viewing on 29 November 2013 was rather less well-attended than for past sales, but by the opening of the auction on the afternoon of Saturday 30th November, Rippon Boswell‘s  Friedrichstrasse saleroom in Wiesbaden was reasonably full. Our impression, confirmed by auctioneer Detlef Maltzahn, was that bidding in the room was stronger than at… Read more »

Van Ham Cologne, Rugs & Tapestries auction, 30 October

Van Ham’s auction of Rugs and Tapestries in Cologne, Germany, on 30 October 2013, will be open for bidding online. The preview will be from 26 – 29 October. The sale includes a large selection of reasonably priced rugs and carpets at a venue which has been a happy hunting ground in the past for dealers… Read more »

Koller Zürich Autumn carpet auction, 19 September 2013

Among the 120 diverse lots in Koller’s carpet sale in Zurich on 19 September 2013 are a number of attractive and interesting tribal and village rugs, not all in prime condition, but generally at enticingly low estimates, as well as a dramatic Uzbek suzani.    

Webb’s New Zealand: Art of Africa, Oceania (and the Americas), 14 September 2013

Webb’s auction house, Auckland, are to sell a diverse range of tribal and oceanic art, taking place Saturday 14 September, 2013 including an array of items from the cultures of Africa, Australia and the Americas.

The Thyssen Mughal Hunting Carpet at Sotheby’s

This mid-17th century North Indian Mughal carpet, until recently furnishing the Swiss home of the late Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, sold at Sotheby’s in New Bond Street, London, on 3 July 2013 (lot 23) for £314,000, approximately three times its lower estimate.


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