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Turkmen Carpets

Masterpieces of Steppe Art, from the 16th to the 19th Century, The Hoffmeister Collection


Published by The Antique Collectors' Club

£60.00 / $76.27 / €72.48
($/€ approx)



Hardback, 192 pages, published 2011

Text in English and German.

‘I am confident that this book will become a standard work in the literature on Turkoman tribal carpets’
Daniel Shaffer
Book Description

The Hoffmeister Collection is one of the best and most extensive private collections of antique and historic Turkmen knotted carpets in Western Europe and America. It competes alongside important collections from Western museums as well as those in Russia and Turkmenistan. With almost 200 objects - among which are distinguished carpets and bags - artistic excellence and historical significance come together. As one of the first to do so, Hoffmeister has determined the age of these knotted works of the Turkmen with the aid of radio-carbon techniques. According to the results from the science and technology university ETH in Zurich, the earliest pieces of the collection originate from the sixteenth century.

Both the cultural significance of the collection and the scientific and artistic value of its pieces are discussed in this book. The readers can really sense the texture of these knotted wares through the brilliant photography, which carry them away on a journey into the lost world of the Steppes folk of Central Asia.

Elena Tsareva is a curator and scientist and worked for some decades at the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg before switching to the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg. As a specialist for Central Asian and North Eurasian art she specialises in carpets and textiles.

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