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 »
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 »
The autumn sees rugs and carpets of note included in three different Christie’s London sales.
Highlights from the Rugs & Carpets, Textiles & Islamic Art sale at Nagel Auction, Stuttgart, 13 September 2016
A selection of oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries, antique and contemporary, as well as tribal art, seen on exhibitors’ stands at this year’s Olympia Fair.
ARTS (Antique Rug & Textile Show) East returns to Boston for the second time, 10-12 June 2016.
The top lot of Sotheby’s London recent (19 April 2016) Orientalist sale features a northwest Persian long rug.
‘The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs’ is on display at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA, from 6 March – 8 May 2016.
LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.
‘Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes’ opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016.
