News: Indian carpets

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   Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th Century, Luhring Augustine

   February 2, 2022

   London-based gallery Francesca Galloway, renowned for its Indian art and textile expertise, has partnered with New York art gallery Luhring Augustine to present ‘Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th Century’. The exhibition will take place at Luhring Augustine Tribeca in New York until 24 March 2022 and is accompanied by a catalogue. The show features some truly outstanding examples of Indian painting from different periods, but our focus here shall be the three textiles illustrated in the HALI 210 exhibition preview.

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   Indian Textiles:1,000 years of art and design, 22 January 2022

   January 19, 2022

   ‘Indian Textiles:1,000 years of art and design’ opens from 22 January to 6 June 2022 and is accompanied by a limited-edition catalogue which includes essays by leading historians of Indian textiles, including Rosemary Crill, Steven Cohen, Avalon Fotheringham and Sylvia Houghteling and will showcase court weavings, folk embroideries and other fabrics from the 9th – early 20th centuries. In this article Rosemary Crill, editor of the accompanying catalogue, explores the ideas behind the exhibition.

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   ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’, Christie’s London, 25 October

   October 18, 2018

   At Christie’s in London on 25 October, the all-encompassing ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ sale includes more than eighty other rugs and carpets, from most time periods and weaving cultures.

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   Antique Oriental Rugs VIII, Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 14 October 2017

   October 4, 2017

   In Vienna, the 223 lots in Udo Langauer’s upcoming carpet sale, ‘Fine Antique Oriental Rugs VIII’ at Austria Auction Company’s Palais Breuner rooms on 14 October 2017, are divided into four main catalogue sections.

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   Dorotheum, Vienna, 12 September 2017

   August 25, 2017

   The specialist sale: Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries is held at the Viennese auction house, Dorotheum at 4pm on 12 September.

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   Classical Carpets and Renaissance Paintings in Venice

   March 20, 2017

   A major exhibition, ‘Sérénissime Trame: Carpets from the Zaleski Collection and Renaissance Paintings’, opens on Thursday 23 March 2017 at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro in Venice.

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   Carpets and Islamic Art at the MIA, Doha

   March 19, 2017

   ‘Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India’, the current exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar (15 March–4 November 2017), brings a new perspective to the MIA’s remarkable permanent collection.

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   Tapestry, Carpets & Textiles, Christie’s London, April 2017

   April 14, 2017

   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 »

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   Results from Rippon Boswell

   December 6, 2016

   The collector’s carpet sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on 3 December 2016 performed well with many pieces finding buyers at reasonable prices.

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    Sotheby’s, Rugs & Carpets, London, 1 November 2016

    October 5, 2016

    Sotheby’s dedicated autumn sale of 155 carpet lots, the second since the auctioneer’s return to specialist rug sales in the Bond Street rooms, is strong on Chinese and East Turkestan pieces and also includes a small Ushak Lotto, a 17th-century Esfahan, a Type-C  Star Kazak, a Mohtashem Kashan and a signed Zareh Kum Kapı prayer rug. There are numerous… Read more »