Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a comprehensive history of oriental rug weaving and a catalogue which provides an engrossing survey of the art and the craft with data on one of the world's great collections. The time period of the rugs starts with the earliest pile rug known, preserved in ice in a Sycthian burial mound of the fifth century B. C.. It also includes Coptic period Egyptian weavings, Seljuk rugs produced in Asia Minor in the thirteenth century, and Mongol rugs of the same period. Turkish group Court rugs of the sixteenth and seventeenth century and mamluk rugs made in Egypt are included. Complementing these presentations are chapters on the rugs of Mughal India, Muslim Spain, the Causasus, and the tribal weaves of Western Turkestan and a chapter by Jean Mailey who offers an authoritative history of Chinese rugs and those of Chinese Turkestan. All 236 rugs in the Metropolitan's collection are shown in photographs of the complete piece.
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Nomenclature 4.0
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Book
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Other Documents
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Category 08: Communication Objects
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Rugs, Oriental Rugs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, Art Museum
