“During the Milan ICOC in 1999, Moshe Tabibnia presented a thrilling array of classical carpets in his Via Brera gallery. Encouraged by the enthusiasm that exhibition generated, Tabibnia managed a mere seven years later to assemble [...] a collection of thirty carpet aristocrats that outdid even those he had shown during ICOC IX. An early and unknown ‘large-pattern Holbein’, the ex-Charles Grant Ellis ‘Para-Mamluk’, and a sensational Karapinar were but a few stars among these new acquisitions, the ballyhooed display of which was to be catalogued by Jon Thompson”.