Mark Topalian has been a consultant appraiser in Rugs and Carpets at Doyle New York since 1994. His duties include appraising and cataloguing all rugs and carpets for estate appraisal services and auction purposes.
Mark utilizes almost two decades of extensive training in antique and semi-antique Persian, Caucasian, Chinese and European rugs and carpets in his family's antique Oriental rug business.
He received his Bachelor of Science at Boston University, where he graduated from the School of Management in 1982. After his studies at Boston University, Mark completed the certificate program at the New York School of Interior Design.
Mark is a featured appraiser on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow.
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DOYLE announces Turkish Art Sale Series in Partnership with Turkish Philanthropy Funds
DOYLE is pleased to present a series of auctions in support of Turkish Philanthropy Funds, a 501-c non-profit organization based in the US. The series brings together artworks by renowned Turkish Modernist and Contemporary artists who have played an important role in the development of the unique Turkish artistic canon that emerged following the establishment of the Turkish Republic.
In celebration of our nation's Semiquincentennial, Gabriel Flicker details how the Revolution was recorded in both narrative and visual form across time and place.
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