Anatolian Tribal Rugs 1050-1750: The Orient Stars Collection

Published to accompany the auction of part of the collection at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, Germany in June 2021

This title presents 33 early rugs and textiles acquired between 1993-2006 by Heinrich and Waltraut Kirchheim.

Anatolian Tribal Rugs 1050-1750: The Orient Stars Collection, a limited-edition companion to Orient Stars: A Carpet Collection (Stuttgart and London, 1993), presents 33 early rugs and textiles acquired between 1993-2006 by Heinrich and Waltraut Kirchheim. In this volume, Michael Franses discusses these exceedingly rare unpublished carpets with reference to their carbon-14 dating as well as comparative examples, and offers new commentary and dating for 43 of the carpets from the original book. Other contributors include: Anna Beselin, Walter Denny, Eberhart Herrmann, Klaus Kirchheim, Garry Muse and Friedrich Spuhler.