Seven hundred years of oriental carpets
1970, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Very good cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Endpapers lightly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Item #477153
ISBN: 0571092500
Physical description; 3-238 pages, 20 plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm. Notes; Translated from the German by May H. Beattie and Hildegard Herzog. Edited by Hanna Erdmann. Translation of: Siebenhundert Jahre Orientteppich (Herford : Busse, 1966). Includes index of museums and collections. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Foreword / Hanna Erdmann – The beginnings of carpet studies (Early carpets in Western paintings ; Oriental carpets in paintings of the Renaissance and the Baroque ; Carpets in Oriental miniatures ; The discovery of the antique carpet ; The "holy" carpet of Ardebil ; Carpet exhibitions since 1890 ; The development of carpet studies) – Individual groups of carpets (Turkish carpets [The Konya carpets ; The Anatolian animal carpets ; The so-called Holbein carpets ; The Lotto carpets] ; The small silk carpets of Kashan ; Garden carpets ; Figure carpets ; Persian carpets of Turkish provenance ; A carpet "unmasked") – Some collections and museums (The world's carpets ; Carpets as Turkish booty ; Venice and the Oriental carpet ; Carpets in Turkish mosques ; The Türk vs. Islam Museum in Istanbul ; Carpets in other Turkish museums ; Carpets in German museums ; A new German carpet collection: Hamburg) – The Berlin Carpet Collection (The war losses of the Berlin Museum [The burnt carpets: Persia ; The burnt carpets: Caucasus, Turkey, Spain ; Vanished carpets] ; Carpets in East Berlin at the end of the war ; Carpets in West Berlin at the end of the war ; New acquisitions of the Berlin Museum) – Peripheral problems (Verses in carpets ; Dated carpets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; Dated carpets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; Carpet fragments ; Carpet pairs ; Carpet cartoons ; Wagirehs ; Carpets of unusual shape) – European production (Carpets with European blazons ; Spanish carpets ; European peasant rugs). Subjects; Rugs, Oriental – History. Carpets – Orient – History.
Price: €50.00