Christie S Carpet Auction

Founded in 1766 christie s offers premier auctions and private sales of the finest art antiques interiors jewelry watches wine and more.

Christie s carpet auction.

Christie s offers a range of exceptional hand woven rugs and carpets dating from the 15th to the mid 20th century from countries across the silk road and europe. Sotheby s rug carpet department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results online catalogues and specialists insights. Une passion pour les arts mise en scène par henri. The initiative includes a global auction of seliger s renowned celebrity.

Over the past decade we have excelled in this category establishing a number of world auction records for rare and exceptional carpets. Browse christie s upcoming auctions exhibitions and events skip to main content auction results calendar auction results promo tile carousel marquee week 6 8 october 20th century new york. Christie s expects it to bring as much as 3 2 million a startlingly conservative estimate given its sale history. Christie s consultant elisabeth parker reveals why this extraordinary ming carpet is one of the best examples ever seen at auction 10 things to know about henri cartier bresson one of the greatest 20th century photographers cartier bresson bore witness to events that shaped history from spain s civil war to the death of gandhi.

Among the other works on sale in the christie s auctions which take place on october 1 and 15 are pictures by camille corot and the barbizon school painter charles françois daubigny. Browse and bid online or contact our salerooms in london new york paris hong kong. Hammersmith carpet falls short of its own record may 4 2015 this handsome morris co hammersmith carpet designed by j h. Dearle around the time of william morris s death in the mid 1890s failed to beat its own.

In 1989 the carpet was sold at a german auction house for 718 700 then a world. This department offers fine rugs carpets and textiles from tribal peoples and villages as well as.