The top lot of the spring sale of carpets and tapestries on 4. May 2002 at VAN HAM Fine Art Auctions in Cologne was a 433 x 372cm large carpet with the pattern of an early Smyrna.VAN HAM’s experts think that this carpet was most probably made around 1900 in a work shop in North Western India.
An American bidder paid sensational 73.200 EUR for this carpet. The estimate was 9.500 EUR.
