One of the most beautiful and famous Safavid carpets, and one of the outstanding examples of Persian carpet weaving from the first half of the 17th century — the Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet — sold for US$33.765 million at Sotheby’s, New York, today [June 5th, 2013].

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