Arthur Millner, of 25 Blythe Road, concluded his second online auction on 7 November 2013, with some very strong results, particularly among the Himalayan bronzes and paintings, as well as Indian miniatures.The total sold was £184,879 (including premium at 20%).
25 Blythe Road’s next Islamic, Indian, Himalayan and South East Asian Works of Art online-only auction, run by Arthur Millner, will include a variety of Indian art and Buddhist Himalayan treasures, from 3 – 7 November 2013.
Auctionata will be conducting an online auction of “Ancient Egyptian and Islamic Art from two important Collections”, on Friday 1 November 2013.
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 »
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 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.
Alone among the major international auction houses, Bonhams still has dedicated North American sales of Oriental rugs and carpets, mainly in their West Coast salerooms, but also occasionally in New York. We show a selection of lots that will be offered simultaneously in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Monday 29 July 2013.
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.
Michael Franses asks whether the Bacri-Clark throne carpet will be remembered for a world-record price ‒ US $33,765,000 ‒ or judged by the glowing words written about it each of the many times it has been exhibited?
The Dutch auction house Peerdeman’s special sale of Indonesian and Asian Textiles from a private European collection was held in their rooms at Mississippidreef 17, in the city of Utrecht, on Saturday 22 June with plenty of international trade in attendance.
