Suzanis shine in Rippon Boswell’s first Vok sale
The first of three single owner auctions to offer the collection of Ignazio Vok took place at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 11 April 2015. Daniel Shaffer reports.
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Ellsworth sales: 100% for the King of Ming
During Asian Art Week in New York, from 17 March to 21 March 2015, some two thousand works of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian and European art from the collection of the late American scholar, dealer and connoisseur, Robert Hatfield Ellis (a.k.a. ‘The King of Ming’) were sold in a series of six auctions… Read more »
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Vok Collection: Selection 1 Auction
The Vok Collection: Selection 1 auction will take place on 11 April 2015 at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden.
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Austria Auction Company Online Sale
Austria Auction Company will be holding an online sale of rugs and kilims on 18 April, a first for the auction house.
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Oriental Rugs & Carpets at Skinner
Skinner’s Boston sale of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets on March 28th, assembled by Lawrence Kearney, features more than 300 lots of antique rugs, carpets, and textiles from most major areas of the ‘Rug Belt’.
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New York Asia Week: An Early Mongol Kilim at Christie’s
On view at Rockefeller Center throughout New York Asia Week 2015 is an extraordinary, and apparently unique, Central Asian or Chinese woollen kilim.
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Embroidered Americana Set to Make a Million in Boston
Skinner’s Boston sale of ‘American Furniture and Decorative Arts’ on 1 March 2015 features a highly important example of early American needlework that is expected to sell for a sum in the region of $1million.
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Needlework from the Nutt Collection
The collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt, including several pieces of important needlework, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, New York on 23 January.
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Churchill’s ‘The Tapestries at Blenheim’ sold at Sotheby’s
‘Daughter of History: Mary Soames and the Legacy of Churchill’, Sotheby’s white glove sale, featured an intriguing painting of the tapestry room at Blenheim Palace.
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High-Flying Dragon carpet
A new mark for a Chinese carpet was set at Christie’s in New York on 11 December 2014, one of six world auction records set during the ‘Exceptional Sale’, by this Wanli period Ming Imperial double dragon carpet fragment. The carpet sold to an anonymous buyer within its $600-800,000 estimate for $665,000. A complete large… Read more »
