Phulkari exhibition, Turin
Phulkari from the private collection of Guido and Aldo Accornero Lazzarino were exhibited at the Museo d’Arte Orientale di Torino in Italy, 14 April – 15 May 2016.
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From HALI 187: Tales of Far Magic, Unrolled…
More than nine metres long, The British Museum’s ‘Cloth of Vrindavan’ is the focus of the current exhibition ‘Krishna in the Garden of Assam’.
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Textiles & Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean
The British School at Athens is organising a workshop titled ‘Textiles & Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean: Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges’ to take place on 3-4 June 2016.
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Major May antique rug and textile auction in Wiesbaden
Unlike the Vok II sale in March, the second major auction of antique rugs and textiles of 2016 at Rippon Boswell will contain items from many different collections and provenances. The Vok sales are becoming high points in the antique rug market both in terms of quality and results, and indeed for Rippon Boswell, but they… Read more »
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Kum Kapi at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
For ‘Kum Kapi’, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is drawing on little known items from its collection to display a handful of very fine Istanbul workshop rugs.
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Holbein in Berlin
From 21 January to 8 May 2016, Berlin’s Bode Museum is host to an important exhibition, ‘The Madonna of the Würth Collection and Masterworks of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’. It is devoted to the work of Hans Holbein the Younger (ca. 1497-1543), one of the greatest portrait painters of the Renaissance, whose name has of course also become synonymous with certain early types of classical Anatolian carpets.
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Carpets and Tapestries from the Dani Ghigo Collection, Turin at Christie’s London
Some fifty antique oriental carpets, as well as European tapestries, from the collection of the veteran Turin antiquarian Dani Ghigo come under the hammer at Christie’s King Street in London in the second part of the Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection sale on 12 May 2016.
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On Sacred Ground
‘Suolo sacro. Tappeti in pittura (XV – XIX secolo)’ is a spring exhibition to be held at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia’s Via Brera premises in Milan from 6 April–2 July 2016. The exhibition will feature 25 rare antique (15th-19th century) oriental carpets from Tabibnia’s incomparable holdings.
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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.
