The exhibition of Oriental carpets from the collection of the Teresa Sahakian Foundation is a presentation of part of the collection, which currently comprises more than six hundred carpets and other works of Oriental art, as well as a set of monuments of European decorative art recently bequeathed.
The collection was created by Teresa Sahakian (1915-2007), a Pole living in Brussels. The collection arrived at the Royal Castle in batches, starting in 1989. Thanks to them, Warsaw gained the status of one of the most important, on an international scale, museum centres collecting Eastern carpets. The collection became stored at the Pod Blachą Palace, where it was exhibited from 1990.
The current exhibition is another presentation of the collection. Its abundance has made it possible to create an exhibition which, on the one hand, is a continuation of the previous shows and, on the other, is a completely new selection of antiquities shown in a new arrangement. A set of textiles from the four leading centres of Eastern carpentry art has been selected for the exhibition: Persian, Anatolian, Central Asian and, presented in the greatest number, Caucasian.
