Joseph V. McMullan Award 2014
Two winners of the most prestigious award in the field of oriental carpets, the Joseph V. McMullan Award have been announced for 2014.
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Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection at Christie’s
The collection of Robert Hatfield Ellis will be sold at Christie’s in March 2015. The distinguished connoisseur, dubbed the ‘King of Ming by the New York Times, passed away in August 2014.
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Rippon Boswell goes Live
Rippon Boswell’s Major Autumn Sale in Wiesbaden, Germany on Saturday 29th November 2014 was auctioneer Detlef Maltzahn’s first venture into the world of real-time online bidding through liveauctioneers.com.
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Embroidered Thangka Sold for Record $45 Million
An imperial embroidered thangka has sold for an unprecedented $45,157,824 (HK$348,440,000) to a Chinese collector at Christie’s Hong Kong.
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‘Carpet’ by Amos Gitai at Palazzo Reale, Milan
The exhibition ‘Strade/Ways’ about the work of noted Israeli film director Amos Gitai will open at Palazzo Reale, Milan on 2 December 2014. The display features a selection of extraordinary rugs related to his upcoming film ‘Carpet’.
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Rossi & Rossi London Gallery Move
Rossi & Rossi, leading dealers in South Asian art, will reopen on 4 December in new premises at 27 Dover Street in London.
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Ming Imperial Dragon Carpet at Christie’s, NY
Lot 8 in ‘The Exceptional Sale’ at Christie’s in New York on 11 December 2014 is a rare Ming imperial double-dragon carpet.
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Carpets and Asian Art at Van Ham, Cologne
On 5 December, 2014, the first sale of ‘Carpets and Tapestries’ to be held at Cologne auctioneer Van Ham’s new location at 2 Hitzelerstrasse, will include an outstanding early 18th century silk carpet from the Tarim Basin in Eastern Turkestan (modern Xinjiang). This rare small carpet features a pink-coloured ground decorated with exquisitely formed yellow-gold… Read more »
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100 Kelims, Volkspark Halle
An album of photographs of the opening evening of the exhibition ‘100 Kelims: The Hamid Sadighi Neiriz Collection’ in Halle, Germany, where the century-old Volkspark exhibition hall, part of the city of Halle’s Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, long associated with textile education, offered an ideal, high-ceilinged location in which to expose an art-aware young… Read more »
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‘A Life in Colour’ at Naziri, Hamburg
Lila Valadan and Weddad Naziri have announced their first exhibition of Persian nomad rugs, ‘A Life in Colour’. From Friday 31st October 2014 at M. Naziri OHG’s newly redecorated warehouse in the Hamburg free port (Brooktorkai 15) they will be showing 64 selected pieces from the private collection of the late Mohammad Naziri, ranging from original Qashqa’i… Read more »
