Special Auction - Collector's Carpets and Ethnologica
The 46th Special Auction of Collector's Carpets and Ethnologica, held at Nagel in Stuttgart on May 16, 2006, ended
with a total result of 0,956 million EUR. The range of collector's carpets, decorative pieces apposite for upscale furnishings, tapestries and textiles on offer met with an international clientele of dealers, collectors and private customers who were all eager to buy and who divided up the most important pieces among themselves.
The sale which was conducted on Monday run several hours from 15pm to 20.30pm. This was quite unusual. Extensive telephone bidding was the
reason.
And so the first nine items fell in the collector's carpets category. They came from a private collection once belonging to the furnishings of Neckarhausen Castle. Ever since the building was transferred to public ownership, the carpets have been passed down within the family of the Counts of Oberndorf. Therefore, the items were market fresh and accordingly attracted the interest of bidders. A Bordjalou Kazak
( Lot 8 ) from the early nineteenth century, for instance, realized 15,960
EUR. And the high point of the entire auction consisted of one of the earliest Anatolian carpets. This specimen, woven around 1500, was in its time considered to be a genuine luxury article – both in Anatolia as well as in Europe. Now a collector conceded
61,180 EUR for the well-preserved piece of work
(Lot 9).
The rather more decorative, classic carpets also sold consistently very well. Typical of this were two
large-scale Tabiz carpets (Northwest Persia) from the twentieth century, which were knocked down for 5,320
EUR and 8,645 EUR, respectively
(Lot 227 and Lot 228). A Ziegler Mahal (West Persia) from around 1890 came to
14,630 EUR (Lot 91). Chinese, East Indian and Mongolian knotted rugs likewise found takers.
Thus the fringe areas of the auction were also able to hold their own quite well, including a Mughal carpet fragment (India)
(Lot 199).
Source: Press release Nagel Auction 17 May 2006
