Die orientalischen Knüpfteppiche im MAK

• Main Author: Völker, Angela (auth)
• Other Authors: Noever, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: The arts; Safavid carpet; Mamluk carpet; Anatolian carpet; Ottoman carpet; MAK; Habsburg; Vienna Carpet Collection; Museums für angewandte Kunst; Knüpfteppiche; Bordüre; Gebetsteppich; Isfahan; Kelim; Medaillon (Ornament); Osmanisches Reich; Perserteppich; Wien
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On account of its focus on unique 16th- and 17th-century Safavid (Persia, Iran) and Mamluk (Egypt, Kairo) carpets and their specific provenances, the collection of Oriental carpets of the MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna-is one of the most famous of its kind. However,...