AUCTIONS USA & CANADA

EXHIBITIONS EUROPE

CONTEXTCALENDAR

PHILADELPHIA| 22 April Carpets, Freeman’s, 1808 Chestnut Street, PA NEW YORK| 27 April Incl. European Tapestries, Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue, NY LOS ANGELES| 30 April Incl. carpets, Bonhams & Butterfields, 7601 Sunset Boulevard, CA SAN FRANCISCO| 30 April Asian Decorative Art, Bonhams & Butterfields, 220 San Bruno Avenue NEW HOPE | 1-2 May Textiles, Charles A Whitaker Auction Co., Route 202 & Sugan Road, New Hope, PA BOSTON| 12 May Carpets, Skinner, 63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA NEW YORK| 17 May African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art, Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue at 72nd Street NEW YORK| 18 May American Indian Art, Sotheby’s NEW YORK| 23 May Pre-Columbian Art, Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza NEW YORK| 23 May American Decorative Arts, Christie’s Rockefeller Center NEW YORK| 24 May American Indian Art, Christie’s Rockefeller Center NEW YORK| 25 May Incl. carpets, Sotheby’s SAN FRANCISCO| 4 June Native American and PreColumbian Art, Bonhams & Butterfields NEW YORK| 6 June Carpets, Sotheby’s NEW YORK| 6 June 20th Century Decorative Arts, Christie’s Rockefeller Center NEW YORK| 18 June 20th Century Decorative Art, Bonhams, 595 Madison Avenue, NY NEW YORK| 19 June 20th Century Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s NEW YORK| 26 June Carpets, Christie’s PHILADELPHIA| 13 July Asian Arts, Freeman’s SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES| 17 July Fine Oriental Carpets and Rugs, Bonhams & Butterfields

Sotheby’s London, 17 April 2007

ISTANBUL | 15-30 April ICOC, Turkmen Main Carpets, Cocoon, 17 Küçük Ayasofya Caddesi, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | From 15 April ICOC, Ottoman Çatma Textiles, Sadberk Hanım Museum, Büyükdere LONDON| 16 April-4 May Persian Paintings & Illustrated Manuscripts 1300-1650, Sam Fogg, 15d Clifford St ISTANBUL | 17-24 April ICOC, Early Anatolian Kilims, Clive Rogers, Kadırga ISTANBUL | 18-22 April ICOC, Gönül Paksoy. Timeless Simplicity, Kadir Has University, Cibali ISTANBUL | From 18 April ICOC, Anatolian Kilims: the Josephine Powell Collection, Yıldız Sarayı, Be Î ikta Î ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Anatolian Carpets & Kilims, Vakıflar Carpet & Kilim Museums, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Selected Textiles from the Collection, Topkapı Saray Museum, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Rugs & Textiles from Turkish Private Collections, Tophane-i Amire, Beyoglu ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Josephine Powell’s Ethnographic Photographs, Swissôtel The Bosphorus, Bayıldım Caddesi 2, Maçka-Be Î ikta Î ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC,Central Asian Ikat Coats: The Çetinkaya Collection, Türk ve Islam Eserleri Museum, Ibrahim Pa Î a Sarayı, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19-30 April ICOC, 4th Annual Exhibition, Mehmet Çetinkaya Gallery, Küçük Ayasofya Caddesi, Tavukhane Sokak No. 7, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19 April-19 August Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750, Sakip Sabancı Museum, Sakip Sabancı Caddesi 22, Emirgan ISTANBUL | 19 April-19 August Kaitag, Textile Art from Daghestan, Sakip Sabancı Museum ISTANBUL | From 19 April ICOC, Carpets & Islamic Art, Türk ve Islam Eserleri Museum, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | Until 21 April ICOC, The Last Knot: Ottoman Palace Carpets, Dolmabahçe Palace, Be Î ikta Î BATH| 24 April-12 August Batik Transitions: From Classic to Contemporary, Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennet Street LONDON| 27 April-23 September Sacred, The British Library, 96 Euston Road LYONS| 27 April-30 December La Soierie Lyonnaise 1800-1914, Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs de Lyon, 34 Rue de la Charité RIGGISBERG| 29 April-11 November Dragons of Silk, Flowers of Gold: Textile Treasures of the Chinese Liao Dynasty (907-1125), Abegg-Stiftung, Werner AbeggStrasse 67 See HALI 150, pp.76-85 ISTANBUL | Until 30 April ICOC, Early Anatolian Weaving, Su.De, 1001 Direk Meydanı, Iletisim Han 7/2, Sultanahmet AMSTERDAM| Until 13 May Beauty and the Bead, Tropenmuseum, Linnaeusstraat 2 See review this issue ZURICH| 13 May-15 July Gilded Splendour: Treasures of China’s Liao Empire (907-1125), Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15 See HALI 150, pp.76-85 LEIDEN| Until 14 May The Celts, National Museum of Antiquities, Rapenburg 28WÜRZBURG| Until 19 May From Pirot to Smyrna, Galerie Kelim, Büttnerstasse 25 GESEKE | 20-31 May Molas, Schloss Eringerfeld, Steinhauser Strasse 8 PARIS| Until 21 May Armenian Christian Art, Musée du Louvre, Rue de Rivoli ZURICH| Until 26 May Kilims from Anatolia, Iran and the Caucasus, Nomadenschätze, Werdmühlestrasse 5 BERLIN| Until 28 May Tibet: Monasteries open their Treasuries, Museum fur Asiatische Kunst, Lansstrasse 8 PRATO| Until 30 May La Fabbrica delle Meraviglie, Prato Textile Museum, via S Chiara 24

Francesca Galloway, London

LONDON| 6-16 June Primal Art: Abstract Tribal Artefacts from Africa to Oceania, Clive Loveless at Gallery No.5, Blenheim Crescent LONDON| 6 June-14 July Neo-Classicism to Pop: European Textile Design 1790-1970, Francesca Galloway, 31 Dover Street LONDON| 7 June-20 July A Taste of the Exotic – Chinoiserie: European Tapestry and Needlework 16801780, S. Franses, 80 Jermyn Street, St James’s MUNICH| Until 17 June Diamonds and Bars. The Art of Amish Quilts, the Schlumberger Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Die Neue Sammlung, Barer Strasse 40 KARSLRUHE | Until 17 June Ancient Anatolia, Badisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Karlsruhe HALLE | Until 24 June Late Antique and Islamic Textiles from Egypt, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5 ZURICH| Until 24 June Life Threads – Textiles from Ancient Peru, Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15 PARIS| Until 25 June The Gupta Empire: The Golden Age of Indian Civilisation, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du General-Eisenhower LYONS| Until 15 July Gold and Treasures from Armenia,Musée des Tissus , 34 Rue de la Charité LISBON| 19 July-18 November The Oriental Carpet in Portugal, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Rua das Janelas Verdes BREMEN| Until 30 July 1001 Nights, Überseemuseum, Bahnhofplatz 13 ST GALLEN| Until 15 August 2007 Masks from Sri Lanka, Völkerkundemuseum, Museumstrasse 50 MULHOUSE | Until 15 August Black and White Printed Textiles, Musée sur L’impression sur Etoffes, 14 rue Jean Jacques Henner BERLIN| Until 2 September The Jazira: A Cultural Landscape, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Bodestr.1-3 AMSTERDAM| Until 15 September Persia: Thirty Centuries of Art, Hermitage Amsterdam, Nieuwe Heerengracht 14 COLOGNE| Until 23 September Saami – Nomads of the North, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Ubierring 45 BRUSSELS| Until 30 September Central African Headdresses from the RMCA Collection, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13 LEEDS| Until 31 December Costume & Textiles from the Leeds Collections, Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall, Lotherton Lane, Aberford, Yorkshire BATH| Until 31 December Silk Fabrics from Lyon, 1800-1914, Museum of East Asian Art BUDAPEST | Until 31 December Treasures of the Esterhàzy Princes, Applied Arts Museum, Ullöi ut 33-37

HALI ISSUE 151173