THE LAWRENCE KEARNEY COLLECTION

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2023 ∙ 11 AM

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Grogan & Company is pleased to offer a selection of rugs, textiles, and illuminated manuscripts from the collection of the late Lawrence Kearney, a mainstay in the rug and textile world for the past 50 years. Lawrence left an indelible mark on our community as a dealer, writer, lecturer, and champion of the art form.

In the 1970s, Lawrence taught Literature, Composition, and Poetry as a university professor. In 1979, he found his true professional passion and established himself in Boston as an Oriental Rug dealer. His academic background followed him into the rug world where he became an esteemed writer for the Oriental Rug Review Magazine, a lecturer at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., an adjunct professor of Rugs and Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a frequent speaker at the New England Rug Society.

It was a pleasure to know Lawrence. His visits to our gallery over the years always started and finished with a warm embrace and were filled in between with fun shop talk, deep dives into rug aesthetics, rehashing the old times, and hope for the future. Lawrence was one of the good guys in the field, and his presence is missed. I am honored to be working with his family to hold this one owner auction of his collection.

- Michael B. Grogan, May 2023

$5,000–10,000

Literature: Morehouse, Brian. Yastiks: Cushion Covers and Storage

Bags of Anatolia, Philadelphia, PA, 8th ICOC, 1996, plate no. 60.

Caucasus, last quarter 19th century

Northwest Anatolian Kilim ca. 1800

4 ft. 11 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.

$5,000–10,000

$3,000–5,000

Rare Pre-Columbian Wari Four Cornered Hat

7th-9th century height: 4 in., width: 5 1/2 in.

$2,000–4,000

Collection of Six Framed and Mounted Textiles including Pre-Columbian and other examples length of largest: 21 in.

$2,000–4,000

$2,000–3,000

Two Mounted Textiles one: Ottoman Silk Embroidered Textile; 1 ft. 5 in. x 11 in. the other: Kashmir Shawl Fragment, Indian; 12 in. x 9 in.

$500–700

29 Collection of Eight Mounted Textiles including Coptic and other examples; largest: dia. 13 in.

$2,000–4,000

Persian Illuminated Miniature depicting a polo game, verso with calligraphy sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

$1,000–1,500

Provenance: The Collection of Saidie A. May (1879-1951); Baltimore Museum of Art; The Lawrence Kearney Collection.

31 Persian Miniature depicting a hunt scene, verso with calligraphy sight: 10 x 5 1/4 in.

$500–700

Persian

$500–700

33

Three Illuminated Miniatures largest sight: 13 x 9 in.

$500–800

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Two Indian Illuminated Miniatures depicting court scenes sight: 9 x 5 in.

$500–1,000

Collection of Five Calligraphic Miniatures largest sight: 11 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.

$1,000–1,500