Oriental Rugs


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Asia Minor


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Oriental Rugs


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Oriental Rugs


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The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs


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Written on the occasion of the May 1922 gift of the James F. Ballard Collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue illustrates and discusses the 125 ancient carpets from Persia, India, Turkey, The Caucasus, Central Asia, and Spain included in this gift which span from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. A short introduction covers the history of rug weaving and a brief discussion of rugs from each region represented.










Rare Oriental Rugs and Carpets


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Excerpt from Rare Oriental Rugs and Carpets: Magnificent Rose Du Barry Ispahans, Ladik, Ghiordes, Kulah, Oushak, Kouba, Sehna, Shiraz, Samarkand and Bokhara Examples, Ashah Abbas Jasmine Carpet, a Damascus Rug and Two Extraordinary Silk Velvet Shah Abbas Rugs, Chinese Rugs of the Late Ming Lemon - yellow field enriched with formalized blossoms in a variety of colors; ivory border with slender chain figure flanked by a guards having opposed diagonal stripes in colors of the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.