Initial highlights of the sold lots in Austria Auction Company’s ‘Fine Antique Oriental Rugs’ sale on Tuesday 16 September 2014, including a world record breaking price for a Salor Turkmen main carpet, and one of the highest sums ever paid for a classical Caucasian carpet at auction
Christie’s autumn sales in London begins on 1 October 2014 in South Kensington in their European Noble and Private Collections Part II sale, with the Oriental Rugs and Carpets sale on 7 October 2014 at the King Street saleroom
The third instalment of Austria Auction Company’s Fine Antique Oriental Rugs will return on Tuesday 16 September 2014 at 2pm at the Novomatic Forum, Vienna.
From 15 – 21 September 2014 the ICOC Tour Vienna – Budapest takes place, organised by the International Conference on Carpets (ICOC) in conjunction with the Austrian Society for Textile-Art-Research-TKF.
On the evening of 10 July 2014, Christie’s King Street salerooms, London will hold the fifth edition of The Exceptional Sale.
On 25 June 2014, Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull sold a fragmented Safavid period Persian carpet with a unique story. The Holms Hepburn Coronation carpet is a typical red-ground ‘in and out palmette’ design weaving of the 17th century, perhaps Esfahan but with an untypical cartouche border, somewhat reconfigured into a squarish fragment. Nothing too unusual… Read more »
In Rippon Boswell’s ‘Major Spring Auction‘ of antique carpets, kilims, embroidered textiles and carpet books on 31 May 2014, about 55% of the 243 lots sold for a gross value, including 22% premiums, of close to three quarters of a million Euros (about $1 million). Both the sold percentage and the total yield will rise during… Read more »
Highest expectations in Rippon Boswell’s Spring sale in Wiesbaden on Saturday 31 May 2014 rest on this large, colourful and highly collectable fragment from a ‘Bukhara’ carpet with multiple rows of niches (lot 96, estimate €65,000).
Christie’s well-attended King Street sale of ‘Oriental Rugs and Carpets’ in London on Tuesday 8 April 2014 was a triumph for consignors and, a rare thing these days, a pleasure to attend.
In the past year the structure of the top end of the international specialist rug auction market has seen some radical changes – both in the wake of the triumph of SNY’s single owner Clark Collection sale last summer and the very successful follow-up of Carpets from Distinguished Collections in January 2014, and through the… Read more »
