‘Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace in Bolzano (Bozen), exhibition review by Ben Evans from HALI 201.
Udo Langauer’s upcoming sale of antique oriental rugs at Austria Auction Company’s Palais Breuner saleroom in Vienna’s Singerstrasse on Saturday 15 December 2018 includes quality rugs from the excellent collection of the late Theo Häberli.
The Austria Auction Company sale at Palais Breuner in Vienna (and online through Live Auctioneers) on Saturday 29 September 2018 comprises 212 lots of mainly collectible rugs offered at very accessible starting prices. Here are some select highlights.
Henry’s sale on 9 December 2017 has almost 350 lots with a good offering of antique Tibetan and Chinese rugs among the semi-antique and antique furnishing carpets and rugs that represent the bulk of the sale.
The 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017) took place on 17-20 October 2017 in Baku. The programme was ambitious, with three days of lectures, museum exhibitions and numerous cultural events.
Embroideries of the 16th-18th centuries from the west Caspian region are the subject of a book, produced by Hali Publications, to be published on the occasion of the International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets on 17-20 October 2017.
Henry’s in Mutterstadt, Germany will hold its 9th International Special Auction of Rugs & Carpets on Saturday 10 June 2017. The 321 lots encompass a wide variety of late 19th and 20th-century Persian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Turkmen rugs.
Sotheby’s London sale of Arts of the Islamic World on Wednesday 26th April 2017 includes twenty lots (139-158) of Ottoman and East Mediterranean complex silks, velvets and embroideries from the outstanding collection of Argine Benaki Salvago, grande dame of Alexandrian society in the 1930s and considered ‘one of Europe’s most beautiful women, the toast of… Read more »
The last week of April 2017 sees the textile arts represented in three separate Christie’s auctions. First, at King Street on on Tuesday 25th, ‘Noble & Private Collections I’ includes a number of European tapestries, notable among them a 16th century Franco-Flemish Millefleurs fragment. Also at King Street, on Thursday 27th, is ‘Art of the Islamic… Read more »
The sale of the Jacques Cadry Collection of oriental carpets, manuscripts and icons at Mossgreen Auctions in Sydney on 2 April 2017 set new records for sales in Australia and pointed to some emerging trends. Susan Scollay reports: Jacques Cadry (1910–2003) was a Persian-born carpet dealer who pioneered the business in Australia. Founded in 1952,… Read more »
