Friedrich Spuhler

Carpets from Islamic Lands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A celebration of more than forty of the finest classical carpets created in Egypt, Turkey, Persia, the Caucasus, and India between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 228mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1268g
• ISBN-13: 9780500970331
• ISBN-10: 0500970335
• Artikelnr.: 35301070

Autorenporträt

Formerly a curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, Friedrich Spuhler is the author of numerous books on Islamic carpets and textiles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah . Acknowledgments .
Introduction: The 2,500-Year History of Oriental Carpets . PART I
PRE-CLASSICAL CARPETS Chapter 1: Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Carpets .
Carpets from the Sasanian period . The early Islamic pre-classical period .
PART II CLASSICAL CARPETS Chapter 2: Egypt . Mamluk carpets . Chessboard
carpets . Chapter 3: Turkey . Seljuq carpets . Anatolian animal carpets .
Ottoman carpets . "Holbein" and "Lotto" carpets . Star Ushak and Medallion
Ushak carpets . Multiple-niche carpets (saff) and prayer carpets . Early
village rugs from Anatolia . "Transylvanian" carpets . Late prayer rugs and
their reception in Western collections . Chapter 4: Persia: Safavid
carpets: the workshops . Safavid carpets: dating . Safavid carpets: pattern
types . Compartment carpets . Medallion carpets Vine-scroll carpets . Vase
carpets . Garden carpets . Safavid velvets . Chapter 5: Caucasus . Dragon
and flower carpets . Chapter 6: India . Mughal carpets: pattern groups .
Vine-scroll carpets . Floral garden carpets . Animal carpets