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I should’ve put ‘asking price’ instead of ‘charging price’. I agree with @sharyn about auctions and finding the right buyer.
@debitendcreits You found that similar signed pieces sold for $250, so it seems that the selling price (as opposed to the charging price) will be around that level. Also the Reuben Saunders Gallery is a brick-and-mortar operation with staff and a big neon sign that says “ART”, so they’re most likely selling face-to-face to the art lovers of Wichita.
Gallery selling Hall’s etchings
At a guess, it’s from his sojourn in France in the 1920s.
If the gallery’s asking 600 dollars, 200 to 250 would seem like the right price.
There was a carpet store on Tottenham Court Road in London in the 1980s, that had a carpet out on the pavement. I remember walking over it, wondering why the shop would subject the carpet to that kind of foot traffic. Now I know!
I guess “vintage” now means “made last year” 🙂 With special “faded dyes”.
Catawiki’s a European auction site, so potential buyers are most likely based in the EU.
Check up on ‘abrash’, which is the colour variations in the dyeing of the wool. The rug seems to have very subtle variations in the red; looks like the weavers took care to make sure there weren’t any big patches of different shades. This abrash is a good sign that a carpet isn’t mechanically woven. It gets reproduced in mechanically-woven carpets but there it’s designed to be noticed.
The really cheap one (18 GBP) has been washed in acid to give a golden colour, and it’s a modern one made in Pakistan.
That looks very similar to an Afghan rug, and Bokhara is a city in Uzbekistan. The rug looks to be in really good condition. At a guess it maybe was made in Iran, but by Afghans, or maybe even brought into Iran and exported from there, hence the label.
The market here in Britain has declined a lot since the 1980s.
eBay UK seems to allow Tabriz rug; not sure about US eBay as people seem to be using Tab’riz and similar.
Here’s a 9’x13′ Persian rug from last Saturday’s auction in Nottingham.
Yes- one guy a while back was complaining about the Nigerian government closing down his shop. I presume the stuff’s loaded into a shipping container, but the cost from the UK to Lagos seems to be about 5,000 to 6,000 dollars for a 40-foot container. Maybe they have cheaper ways of shipping.
The market I go to, in Nottingham (UK), African buyers pick the stock directly off the market traders’ vans as they’re unloading. They go for microwaves, bicycles, children’s toys and home decor. I picked up a 1953 Kenwood A706 mixer as the African lady who was examining it decided it wasn’t worth shipping back as she maybe couldn’t get the attachments for it. She didn’t say where in Africa, but I’m guessing Nigeria.
I did visit one trader’s house last year- a friend had bought a Kenwood mixer from him on eBay. He wasn’t at home when we called, but his wife made us welcome, and we sat with her amongst a dozen Henry vacuum cleaners.
Big pile of women’s shoes this week, randomly dumped on the ground in a pile 20 foot by 10 foot.
St Martin and the beggar. It’s in the NGA in Washington. I image-searched “El Greco naked man and man on horse”. El Greco portrays the moment when St Martin of Soure, clad in armour and riding his horse en route to give the Moors a good seeing-to, gives a man who’s into nude begging the baize off a billiard table.
@lukastreasuretrove I could hear Glenn Gould’s humming on vinyl, so I guess it’ll be even more apparent on a USB stick! Don’t know if he ever recorded with Pablo Casals, who made grunting sounds.
