Carpet $33.7 Million Price Sold At New York Auction

The Sotheby’s auction house in New York city said on Wednesday that the price for the Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet was more than three times the previous auction record for a carpet. It was sold at a price of $33.7 million.

The seller of the early 17th century carpet was the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The expensive carpet, measuring 8 feet 9 inches by 6 feet 5 inches, was part of a collection bequeathed to Corcoran in 1926 by William A. Clark, an industrialist and U.S. senator from Montana.