OAKLAND, Calif.--Jan David Winitz, an eminent art dealer who specializes in antique Oriental rugs, today announced that his gallery, Claremont Rug Company, is mounting its second annual exhibition of the “best of the best” carpets sold during the previous year. A total of 30 rugs will be displayed, starting immediately. “I expect art collectors to be enamored with the highly original pattern language and incredible color palettes found in these pieces which represent the epitome of rug weaving in Persia and the Caucasus during the 19th century,” said Winitz. He said that all of the rugs in Claremont’s web exhibition “would undoubtedly have appeared in the rug literature” had they not been in private collections for up to four generations.” “We decided to make this an annual event because of the extraordinarily positive response we received from the international rug community to our first best of the best exhibition last year,” Winitz, who founded Claremont in 1980, said. “This new group is even more astonishing, as last year we had unparalleled access to rugs of great rarity. In this image: Sultanabad 12ft 8in x 17ft 0in. Sultanabad 12ft. 2nd quarter, 19th century.
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