Subtitled ‘Treasures of Wool and Silk’, the November sale includes 209 lots of overall very high quality drawn from across the chronological and geographic spectrum of carpet weaving in the Eurasian rug belt.
‘Rugs and Carpets from Distinguished Collections’ at Sotheby’s in London on 3 November 2015 marks a return to the auctioneer’s New Bond Street rooms for sales dedicated to oriental rugs, carpets and associated textiles.
SNY’s high-end auction of ‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ on 1 October yielded a total of $2,236,000.
This year’s busy autumn Islamic week sales in London are set to begin on 6 October. HALI reviews the textile offerings from the three main auction houses
‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ at Sotheby’s in New York on 1 October 2015 is a compact sale – just 194 lots – full of old friends of good quality and provenance.
The London autumn Islamic sales are drawing near. In terms of rugs and carpets, this year Christie’s is the main player.
Highlights from the upcoming Rippon Boswell auction.
Auktionshaus Homm will hold an auction of rugs and carpets in Oberursel, Germany, on 27 June 2015, 6pm local time. Featured is a good selection of Persian town carpets at inviting estimates. The star piece of the sale is lot 502 (below), a silk Heriz rug from the mid nineteenth century with a Vak Vak tree design…. Read more »
Music producer and Turkmen rug collector Kurt Munkacsi’s collection comes under the hammer in Vienna this May.
As part of London’s Islamic Art Week, Christie’s will hold an Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction on Tuesday 21 April in their King Street salerooms. Highlights include an early Mongol kilim, a Bukhara saf fragment and an Ottoman Cairene carpet.
