Morning Prayers on a Northwest Persian Long Rug
The top lot of Sotheby’s London recent (19 April 2016) Orientalist sale features a northwest Persian long rug.
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Ballard Rugs Exhibit in St Louis, March–May 2016
‘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.
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Seth Siegelaub at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
An extract from an exhibition review by Alan Kennedy of ‘Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art’ at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 – 17 April 2017.
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Antique Rugs in Vienna
Austrian Auction Company’s first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online.
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Alice de Rothschild’s Vase Carpet Trio at Christie’s
For Christie’s next major London carpet sale at King Street on 19 April 2016, head of department Louise Broadhurst has secured the consignment by ‘A Nobleman’ of three previously unknown and unpublished Safavid ‘vase-technique’ carpets.
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Rothschild Vase Carpets and much more at Christie’s, London, 19 April
Christie’s spring Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction on 19 April 2016 in London is headlined by an amazing trio of 17th-century Kerman ‘Vase-technique’ carpets that were once the property of Baroness Alice de Rothschild, but there is far more to the King Street sale.
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London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) 14-17 April 2016
LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.
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Small-Pattern Holbein Carpet and North Rhine Tapestry at Sotheby’s NY, 12 April
Sotheby’s auction in New York on 12 April 2016 of 282 lots of ‘European Decorative Arts from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts’ includes a substantial number of carpets, tapestries and textiles from both East and West.
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Kashmir shawls and other antique textiles from the Nemati Collection. Drouot Paris, 11 April 2016
On 11 April 2016 at Drouot in Paris, Gros & Delettrez will offer a large and varied selection of 239 lots of Kashmir shawls and other Indian, Persian, Turkish, North African and European textiles from The Nemati Collection, New York. Among the 239 lots featured will be a broad range of 18th and 19th century… Read more »
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Kössl at Schloss Laxenburg
‘Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes’ opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016.
