Rugs and Flatweaves from East Azarbaijan and

Contains many previously unseen and unpublished pieces from a highly regarded collection
The author/collector offers his considered opinions
Book design by a top UK graphic designer, Misha Anikst, with photographs by the USA's leading specialist carpet/textile photographer, Don Tuttle

This book features the collector/author's well informed views about a careful selection of mainly 19th century knotted pile carpets and flatwoven covers in various techniques from his own extensive collection, which has been built up over a period of more than five decades. Many of the rugs, which are all of the highest graphic and artistic quality, have been acquired without recourse to the open market and are therefore previously unseen and unpublished. Raoul (Mike) Tschebull's long experience in the genre allows insights that go beyond the conventional wisdom of the traditional antique oriental carpet bazaar. His collecting career began under the aegis of one of the great US collectors of a previous generation, Joseph V. McMullan.

This beautifully illustrated book will include a general introduction to the region, which straddles the present-day border between north-western Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, setting the context for the focused presentation of some 70 examples, each with the author's comments about design, structure, technique and attribution, providing a matrix within which dating can be considered. In-country field experience colors some of his views, and extracts from his field notes and accompanying images will be included the book.

A former banker, the author/collector Raoul E. Tschebull is well known in international rug collecting circles for his first publication, a modest but highly influential mainly black and white 1971 exhibition catalogue of Kazak rugs, as well as numerous articles in HALI magazine and frequent lectures on the subject. He is a past recipient of the Near Eastern Art Research Center's Joseph V. McMullan Award for Scholarship and Stewardship in the field of Islamic Carpets.

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Rugs and Flatweaves from East Azarbaijan and the Transcaucasus The Raoul E Tschebull Collection

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