Skinner will hold their next special carpet auction ‘Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets’ Monday 21 October 2018 at 12pm in Boston. Their preview will be open for the public Friday 19 October from 4pm-7pm, Saturday 20 October from 12pm-5pm and on the day of the auction Sunday 21 October from 9am-11am.
Rugs and carpets
The October Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction includes 330 lots from tribal rugs to room size carpets and also feature part I of the The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs.
Lot 224. Bakshaish Carpet, Iran, c. 1880, 12 ft. x 8 ft. 8 in. Estimate $8,000 – $10,000Lot 143. Ming Carpet Fragment, China, 16th century, silk foundation, 3 ft. 1 in. x 1 ft. 9 in. Provenance: The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs. Estimate $3,000 – $3,500Lot 139. Large Turkoman Chuval-face, Central Asia, 18th century, with extensive silk and cotton highlights, 3 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 7 in. Provenance: The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs. Estimate $1,200 – $1,500Lot 99. Serapi Carpet, northwestern Iran, c. 1890, 11 ft. 4 in. x 10 ft. 7 in. Estimate $8,000 – $10,000Lot 82. Shahsavan Bagface, Iran, c. 1870, 1 ft. 11 in. x 1 ft. 9 in. Provenance: The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs. Estimate $600 – $800Lot 64. Khotan “RKO” Rug, Central Asia, c. 1800, 5 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 11 in. Provenance: The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs. Estimate $2,000 – $3,000Lot 55. Ningxia Mat, western China, 18th century, 2 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. Provenance: The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs. Estimate $2,000 – $3,000Lot 1. East Anatolian Yastik, Turkey, c. 1860, 3 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 11 in. Provenance: The Ronnie Newman Collection of Early Rugs. Estimate $600 – $800
