Hardcover
1991 · Zutphen, Netherlands
by Ydema, Onno
Zutphen, Netherlands: Walburg Pers, 1991. Hardcover. VG/VG- (speckled foxing to upper textblock edge; sporadic instances of spotted foxing to upper pg edges; spots to back endpaper & pastedown. light rubbing to dust jacket, and sticker residue on the front; foxing to interior upper edge). Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 208 pp. BW and some color illustrations. "This book discusses the connection between the process of early carpet dating and European paintings of the 16th and 17th century. It includes nearly a thousand examples of carpet types which are discussed according to places of origin: Anatolia, Persia, India and Egypt. As early as the 14th century carpets were traded from the Near East to Western Europe. This book focuses on the intersection of two civilizations: Islamic textile art in the form of carpets and Western European painting. Carpets were portrayed by artists in use as floor decorations, as table covers or to cover trunks and chests. The book concentrates on pictorial source material from about 1540 onwards, as Western paintings are indispensable references for the dating of later carpets." -Amazon.
(Inventory #: 164499)