A PART-SILK ISFAHAN RUG

Recommended features

• • 

  • 5 minutes with extraordinary objects and works of art

    Join our specialists for a closer look at some of the treasures we’ve offered at auction

• • 

  • A brilliant fragment of an important ‘Vase’ carpet from the reign of Shah Abbas the Great

    Louise Broadhurst, Head of Oriental Rugs and Carpets, explains how a once-mighty carpet has come to be dispersed across the globe, from Paris to Boston to Berlin

• • 

  • Collecting Guide: Oriental rugs and carpets

    Everything from identifying natural dyes to finding the right setting on your vacuum cleaner. Illustrated with past and upcoming lots offered at Christie’s

• • 

  • Collecting guide: Ottoman silk velvet panels

    With their precious metal threads and floral motifs, textiles produced in Turkey in the 16th and 17th centuries were widely prized in war tents, palaces and pavilions

• • 

  • Previously owned by Warhol, a Basquiat work that speaks to their friendship

    Offered for private sale, a work on paper that not only encapsulates the bond between two greats, but also seems to reference their workouts together

• • 

  • 10 jewellery designers you really need to know about

    From Wolfers Brothers via Henry Vever and Suzanne Belperron to Aldo Cipullo, a guide to some of jewellery’s hidden gems