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Kaukasische Teppiche: Ausstellung 17.11.-16.12.1962, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt
Author:Peter W. Meister; Kurt Erdmann; Ulrich Schurmann; Frieder Spuhler
Publisher:Museum fur Kunsthandwerk
Release Date:1962
Seller Category:Art & Architecture
Qty Available:1
Condition:Used: Very Good
Sku: 20261101010
Notes: Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Published 1962. Hardcover, [264] pp.; 20.5 cm; text in German; 122 full-page black-and-white plates, with knot diagrams and a detail from a Memling painting. Foreword by P. W. Meister, introduction by Kurt Erdmann. In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Rebound in black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, original front wrapper with color illustration of rug mounted on front board; light bumping to edges, mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages toned along edges, otherwise unmarked. Catalogue of an exhibition of 122 Caucasian rugs, November 17 to December 16, 1962, the second such exhibition in Germany after Hamburg in 1961. Each rug has a full-page plate with facing description by Ulrich Schurmann, dimensions and technical analysis of warp, weft, pile and knot count. Rugs are arranged by region, including Kassak, Karabagh, Gendje, Moghan, Kuba, Daghestan and Schirwan. Erdmann, director of the Islamic department of the Berlin Museums, argues in his introduction for serious study of the 19th-century rug and traces some of its designs to earlier centuries. Technical results by region by Frieder (Friedrich) Spuhler, later curator at the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin. Includes list of lenders.
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