Carpets and Tapestries from the Dani Ghigo Collection, Turin at Christie’s London

May 5, 2016

Highlights of the Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection

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Some fifty antique oriental carpets, as well as European tapestries, from the collection of the veteran Turin antiquarian come under the hammer at Christie's King Street in London in the second part of the Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection sale on 12 May 2016.

‘TRANSYLVANIAN’ PRAYER RUG WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

CAIRENE RUG OTTOMAN EGYPT, LATE 16TH CENTURY

‘STAR’ USHAK CARPET WEST ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

‘STAR’ USHAK CARPET WEST ANATOLIA, 18th CENTURY

BERGAMA RUG WEST ANATOLIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

LADIK PRAYER RUG CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

MELAS PRAYER RUG WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

DOUBLE-NICHE ‘TRANSYLVANIAN’ RUG WEST ANATOLIA, 17TH CENTURY

PART-COTTON ESFAHAN RUG CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

PART-COTTON ESFAHAN MEDALLION RUG CENTRAL PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY

ESFAHAN CARPET CENTRAL PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY

Ghigo Collection. FRANCO-FLEMISH FEUILLES-DE-CHOUX TAPESTRY LATE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE

Ghigo Collection. Flemish Verdure tapestry

FRANCO-FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND LATER, POSSIBLY SWISS

A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

‘TUDUC’ CARPET EASTERN EUROPEAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

AFSHAR RUG SOUTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1890

DAGHESTAN PRAYER RUG EAST CAUCASUS, DATED AH 1290/1873 AD

ZILI EAST CAUCASUS, 19TH CENTURY

ESFAHAN RUG CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Some fifty antique oriental carpets, as well as European tapestries, from the collection of the veteran Turin antiquarian Dani Ghigo come under the hammer at Christie’s King Street in London in the second part of the Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection sale on 12 May 2016.

PART-COTTON ESFAHAN RUG CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

FRANCO-FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND LATER, POSSIBLY SWISS