A Persian thick fabric for covering part of a floor belonging to the early 17th century has gained a price tag $33.7 million happened in New York City. Sotheby’s auction house known to have expressed that the price tag for the Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet sold to an anonymous telephone bidder seems to be exceedingly higher being three times more than the preceding auction record for a carpet. The seller was the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the price is inclusive of the auction house’s premium.

Interestingly, the Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet which measures 8 feet 9 inches by 6 feet 5 inches was known to be part of a collection disposed of to Corcoran in 1926 by William A. Clark who was an industrialist at the same time US senator from Montana.

The preceding record of the price tag being kept for a carpet was $9.6 million for a Persian carpet which have been sold by Christie’s in London in April 2010.
That truly generates astonishment!

Image Source:  Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet

(AW:Samrat Biswas)