Austria Auction Company in Vienna will hold its ‘Masterpieces III’ sale on 14 February, featuring forty high quality antique rugs and textiles from private European collections. The lots can be previewed from 11–13 February from 11am–5pm and on 14 February from 11am–4pm. Here are some highlights. A striking Tibetan ‘Tiger Rug’, dating to around 1900, is… Read more »
Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer previews the ‘Collection Adil Besim’ sale at Dorotheum.
Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer previews Rippon Boswell’s Major Spring Auction.
On Thursday 24 May 2018, Sotheby’s in New York will offer some 180 works of 20th-century European and American design, including one carpet of appropriate period and pedigree.
Thursday 26 April 2018 was a very good day for classical-period carpets in the London salerooms.
Markus Voigt reviews the 31st edition of TEFAF, The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht.
Significant rugs and textiles are not limited to specialised auctions or even Islamic and Asian art sales. A case in point is the upcoming Important Design auction at Bonhams in London on 25 April 2018.
A brief overview by Daniel Shaffer of the sale of Anatolian kilims, North African carpets and southeast Asian textiles from the collection of the Austrian businessman Theodor Poppmeier, in which the best kilim lots outdid even those of the recent series from the much higher-profile Vok Collection.
The ‘Poppmeier Collection’, including early and rare Anatolian kilims, will be on sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on 10 March 2018.
