Persian rug sold at auction for record $33.8m

The winning bid for the Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet was made anonymously on Wednesday at Sotheby's in New York. William Clark, an industrialist and US senator from Montana, had bequeathed the carpet and other items to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1926. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22801657#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa