The Rickmers Collection. Turkoman Rugs [SIGNED BY AUTHOR]
Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Signed by author on half-title. Large Quarto. 87pp. Original pictorial wrappers with white lettering on cover and spine. "The Turkoman carpet collection on Berlin's Ethnographic Museum is neither the largest nor the most representative museum collection in the world. However, apart from those of the former Soviet Union, in the Ashkhabad, Tashkent and St. Petersburg museums, and, in the West, the collections of the Textile Museum in Washington DC and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, it is probably the most important. Sixty-two of the 63 Turkoman pieces in the Berlin collection are illustrated in this catalogue (only one of an identical pair of Tekke ak-chuwals is shown, plate 22)." (author). Illustrated with beautiful color photographs of rugs throughout. The detailed descriptions are complemented by a section with notes to plate texts, a bibliography, a glossary, a map, and notations on materials, structure, and features of each plate. Light wear along edges of wrappers, light age toning of block in margins not affecting images. Wrappers and interior in overall good+ condition. g+. Item #38034
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