March/April 1996

107 EXHIBITIONS A rare outing for some of the historic kilims from the stores ol the Vakiflar Museum in Istanbul; European textiles from the Lehman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago; African and

Andean acquisitions at Boston; a ‘Transylvanian’ carpet exhibition including classical Anatolian rugs travels to London from the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts; plus, the Whitworth Gallery. Manchester, celebrates the William Morris centenary; Buddhist bronzes at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich;

textiles in bookbindings at the Arsenal library in Paris; kimonos in Frankfurt; book arts of Esfahan at the Getty

Museum in Malibu: Markarian rugs at Indianapolis.

113 BOOKS Philip Mansel’s Constantinople: City o f the World's Desire, reviewed by Elizabeth Gill; Brian Spooner on Ties that Bind: A

Social History o f the Iranian Carpet by Leonard Helfgott;

Jacqueline Herald on The Woven Silks oj India.

117 APPENDIX Notes, acknowledgments and supplementary information.

119 THE HALI GALLERY A distinctive advertisement section in house style.

MARKETPLACE

132 NEWS

Zollanvari’s new gabbeh production acclaimed; Domotex in Hannover.

134 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE A ‘Sunburst" and other Caucasians warm a frosty East Coast,

while a bevy ol Anatolians keep cool in Wiesbaden; plus dragons aplenty in Milan. 142 AUCTION REPORTS Two complementary takes on the East Coast market; a look back at a sale of Ballet Kusse costumes and forward to the Vigo-Sternberg collection of tapestries at Sotheby’s London.

144 FAIRS The Harbiye Centre in Istanbul hosts an impressive but underpublicised dealers' fair; a raft of Asian art. tribal and folk art fairs at both East and West Coast US venues organised by

Caskey-Lees. 149 GALLERIES The Textile Gallery and John Eskenazi team up with Colnaghi to present classical Turkish carpets and related early paintings in London and New York; Japanese indigo textiles at Linda Wrigglesworth, London; 17th and 18th century

European silks in New York; Omar Mason’s Turkmen

Gallery opens in London. 151 NETWORK A classified advertisement section.

169 CALENDAR A listing of auctions, exhibitions and fairs worldwide.

174 PARTING SHOTS Dealers and visitors at the Caskey-Lees Chicago and LA shows; the Volkmann meeting in Munich and Eurotefa in Nuremberg; plus shots from Istanbul, Singapore, Athens,

New York, London and Stuttgart.

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HALI ETYMON Hall, the modern Turkish word for carpet or rug, was written ka li in Ottoman script until late in the 19th century, as it was in classical Persian and still is in modern Persian. It was borrowed from Persian into Urdu and from Ottoman Turkish into Armenian and other Caucasian tongues and into the languages of the Balkans. Its ultimate origin is uncertain; it conld he Turkish but might he Sogdian.

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