BOSTON — Two sessions and more than 250 lots made up Grogan & Company’s Fine Rugs and Textiles Auction, conducted January 15-16. The sale featured notable selections from the collection of Dr Michael Steinberg, early Anatolian rugs from a notable Massachusetts family and rugs from the personal collection of Julien Lafayette Taibi. Session one saw the highest price of the sale at $75,000, including buyer’s premium, for a Salor Two Gül wedding trapping rug. Made circa 1800 in Turkestan, the rug was part of a “select, highly sought-after group of Salor weavings known as kejebe-design wedding camel trappings,” according to catalog notes. It had provenance to Steinberg’s Beverly Hills, Calif., collection. Additional highlights from both days of the sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.
