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Sovereign Carpets

Unknown Masterpieces from European Collections

Edited by: Edoardo Concaro, Alberto Levi

Skira, Milano 1999, 240 pages, 230 col.illustrations, 21 x 28cm, English,      ISBN  9788881186303

euro 43,00

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The book illustrates the extraordinary and very ancient art of rugs with a relevant selection of Oriental rugs—from the oldest to the ones produced in the late nineteenth century—belonging to European private collections, besides a set of rugs coming from the Russian ethnographic museum of St. Petersburg.
The fruit of long research within the rich private artistic patrimony, the catalogue assembles two hundred Oriental rugs from the 15th to the 19th century, coming from Persia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, central Asia, Tibet, Turkestan
and China.
The pieces featured in the volume cover vast chronological and geographical sections of the fascinating world of carpets; the aim of the book is both eclectic and simple: to present  very beautiful rugs belonging to private collectors and to give —through brief introductory chapters—an overview of the main carpet-weaving areas of the world.
A series of maps and a glossary of technical terms are designed to help the non professional reader.
There are several titles avaiable on carpets, but the peculiarity of this book is to illustrate many precious pieces from private collections, never shown to the public before.

05/04/22

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In-door and out-door costumes of Sart (uzbek) women. Turkestan. Central Asia. 1880s.  F.Orden.

This map is one of my top ten favorite! Map of Southern Turkestan was made as a base map by Ellsworth Huntington for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (the Inquiry) for their “Map of the Caspian Sea and of the region to the East,” to be used at the Paris Peace Conference.

Not only is the relief shown by some beautiful shading, but the annotations describe the contents of the map and show where map is to be altered and trimmed for the Inquiry’s purposes: “The shaded area shows the region between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Aral which would be submerged if Aral should be filled to overflowing, and the Caspian should rise about 150 feet above the present level (after Konchin)”–[Ellsworth Huntington]. The map was one of over 700 items from our collection that were loaned to the Peace Conference at Versailles. All items that went were marked with the stamp or given a sticker that reads: “Loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Peace Conference at Versailles, 1918-1919.”

I use the map as a teaching tool to show how maps themselves are sometimes “in progress.” There are annotations all over the place, the title is scratched out, and there are notes to fix the shading in some places.

danismm:

Travel booklet “The Golden Road to Turkestan
(Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang (East Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan). Often, the Turkic regions of Afghanistan and Russia (Tatarstan and parts of Siberia) are included as well.)

Wanderlust, Satiate #1:

Back to Bokhara, for the first time?