Articles tagged with: persian
Sotheby’s Sells The Safavid Rug For A Huge $4.34 Million
Posted in Art, Designer, Display, Exhibitions, News on 10 October 2009
Posted in Art, Designer, Display, Exhibitions, News on 10 October 2009
Imagine a rug fetching a stunning price of $4.34 million. And this thing can be reality (in fact it is so) when the rug in question is the one of the famed ones from Safavid and apparently was a gift from the Safavid Persian court to the Ottoman Turks and must have been used for prayers by the blue blood too. Despite its age, the rug is in a remarkable condition. This artefact represents some gorgeous Persian handicraft and art which was particularly appreciated by Genoan and Venetian merchants.
Sold at Sotheby’s, the rug was expected to fetch anywhere between $130,000 and $192,000 or so claimed the Head of the Middle East & India Department at the store, Edward Gibbs.
