Oriental Carpets. Their Iconology and Iconography from Earliest Times to the 18th Century.

First published 1991 as a dissertation originally called 'The Christian Oriental Carpet'. Contents: Foreword by Robert Bartlett Haas; Acknowledgements; Introduction; From the Beginnings to the High Middle Ages (The Pazyryk Carpet and the Emergence of the Knotted-Pile Carpet; Traditional Designs); The Christian Oriental Carpet (The Beginnings: Carpet Pages; Early Fragments); The Early Middle Ages (Carpet-Group A I. Carpets with Cross-Block Borders; Carpet-Group A II. Carpets with Pseudo-Kufic Borders; Carpet-Group A III. Coffered-Form Medallion Carpets); The High Middle Ages (Carpets in European Painting; Carpets in Armenian and Syrian Painting; Carpets in Chinese-Sung Dynasty Painting; Carpets in Islamic Painting; Carpet-Group B I. 'Holbein' Carpet Prototypes; Carpet-Group B II. Coffered-Form Medallion Carpets II. Large-Pattern (LP) 'Holbein' Carpets; Carpet-Group B III. 'Damaskus'/'Mamluk' Carpets I; Carpet-Group B IV. 'Paramamluk' Carpets; 'Chessboard' Carpets; Carpet-Group B V. 'Spanish' Carpets); From the Late Middle Ages to Modern Times (The Historical Situation); The Christian Oriental Carpet II. From the Late Middle Ages to the 18th Century (Carpet-Group C I. Cross-Star carpets - Eastern Design Groups; Carpet-Group C II. Small-Pattern (SP) 'Holbein Carpets; Carpet-Group C III. 'Lotto' Carpets); Carpet-Group C IV. 'Cross-Star Carpets - Western Design Groups (Carpet-Group C Iva. Star- 'Ushak' Carpets I; Carpet-Group C IVb. Star- 'Ushak' Carpets II; Carpet-Group C IVc. Star- 'Ushak' Carpets III; Carpet-Group C IVD. Medallion- 'Ushak' Carpets); Carpet-Group C V. Diamond-Form Cross Carpets and Step-Form Cross Carpets (Carpet-Group C Va. 'Memling Gul' Carpets; Carpet-Group C Vb. Step Form Cross Carpets and Diamond-Form Cross Carpets; Carpet-Group C Vc. 'Dragon' Carpets; Carpet-Group C Vd. Flowering-Cross Carpets - 'Sunburst' Carpets; Carpet-Group C Ve. 'Ghirlandaio' Carpets; Carpet-Group C VI. 'Bergama' Coffered-Form Carpets; Carpet-Group C VII. 'Damascus'/'Mamluk' Carpets II; Carpet-Group C VIII. North-west Persian Medallion Carpets. Cross-Star Carpets. East Armenian Design Groups; Carpet-Group C IXa. Carpets from New Julfa/Isfahan; Carpet-Group C IXb. Carpets from South-western Persia, the Fars Region and the Afshari and Qashqai Territories; Carpet-Group C X. Carpets from Central Asia I - 'Turkoman' Carpets; Carpet-Group C XI. Carpets from Central Asia II - Carpets of the Uzbeks, the Kirghizes and the Oasis Towns of East Turkestan); Carpet-Group C XII. Arch-Form Carpets - 'Paradise-Gate' Carpets (Carpet-Group C XIIa. Columned Arch-Form Carpets I. Multi-Column 'Ladik' Carpets; Carpet-Group C XIIb1. Columned Arch-Form Carpets II. 'Cairene' Carpets; Carpet-Group C XIIb2. Columned Arch-Form Carpets III. 'Transylvanian Niche-Form Carpets; Carpet-Group C XIIc. Arch-Form Carpets IV - Bellini Type; Carpet-Group C XIId. Multiple-Arch Carpets; Summary and Outlook; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography).