New World focus from carpets and tapestries at Piasa auction
A small but select sale of a collection of carpets and tapestries comes up for sale at Piasa in Paris on June 15. The 14 lots of weavings spanning the 16th to 18th centuries have a particular emphasis on Spain and the New World.
They were acquired three decades ago by a Parisian collector from the Galerie Catan, the well-know…