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.
With just 49 high value objects dating from the Renaissance to the 20th century, Treasures 2013 at Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on 3 July presents an mix of furniture and decorative art. All augmented by royal, noble or historic provenances, the sale promises ‘a rich diversity in style and age.’
A new world record price at auction for a Central Asian suzani of any description was paid for on 25 May 2013 for the catalogue cover piece in Rippon Boswell’s spring sale, lot 197, a large, densely intricate, blazingly colourful mandala-like ‘Lakai’ silk on silk embroidery from an old German collection
Potentially the greatest carpet auction in living memory, 25 classical 16th and 17th century carpets from the collection of the ‘Copper King’ are being sold at Sotheby’s in New York on 5 June 2013 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC to benefit future acquisitions.
Wannenes in Genoa, Italy, has emerged over the past few years as a welcome player in the international antique carpet and textile auction market and Wannenes now hold regular specialist sales. A few of the possible highlights of their next Genoa sale, on 29 May 2013, are shown here.
Sotheby’s 22 May auction of the Arts of the American West realised almost $4 million. This was the first Sotheby’s sale to bring together the best examples of American Indian artistic traditions as well as Western paintings and works on paper spanning 2,000 years of cultural and aesthetic traditions.
Rippon Boswell’s Spring sale of antique carpets and textiles in Wiesbaden on Saturday, 25 May 2013, contains a typically well presented array of fine collectables from the carpet belt of Eurasia and beyond.
The Dorotheum in Vienna, one of the oldest of Europe’s leading auction rooms, holds regular Spring and Autumn sales of Oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries under the expertise of Wolfgang Matschek, and carpets are also included in less specialised sales both in Vienna and in the company’s provincial salerooms in cities such as Linz. This Spring, a Linz sale on 16 May 2013 includes a small group of rugs, while Herr Matschek’s main sale at the Palais Dorotheum on Monday 27 May, offers more than 200 lots.
Rippon Boswell’s major Spring sale in Wiesbaden on Saturday 25 May 2013 will include a very strong group of 13 Uzbek and Tajik suzani embroideries, several of which are consigned from a German private collection of long standing. The images speak for themselves
