70 Fragment of a 19th century Swedish flamskvävcushion cover. Private collection, London

106-7 Facet-cut glass vase, 7th century. Farjam Collection at DIC,

Dubai

110 Finnish Rya,Honkanen at

Sartirana Textile Art Fair

CONTENTS ISSUE 165 AUTUMN 2010

FRONTLINES NEWS USA embargoes Iranian carpets; Dan Walker for Chicago’s Art Institute; Zollanvari’s 25th 15 IN MEMORIAM Harold Mark Keshishian remembered by Bruce Baganz and Russ Pickering 17 FROM THE ARCHIVE F.R. Martin’s catalogue for the 1897 Stockholm World’s Fair 19 POSTCARD Tony Hazledine finds Armenian art in Thessalonika and a trove of Ottoman textiles in northern Greece 21 PROFILE Joss and Jayne Graham meet the prolific English collector Lord Alastair McAlpine 27

FEATURES LAND OF MANY HUES

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The Rugs of Cappadocia SONNY BERNTSSON Anatolia’s ‘Fairy Garden’ is the source of long divan rugs of the ‘yellow-ground’ Konya group, whose cultural and ethnographic origins are as complex as the region’s geography

GANDHARAN TEXTILES

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JANE THURSTON-HOSKINS A look at surviving Helleno -Buddhistic textiles via the medium of stone friezes in the British Museum

THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

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CHERI HUNTER

Images and impressions from a recent textile-focused tour of Syria, taking in the bazaars of Aleppo and Damascus, as well as ancient Palmyra, and Crusader castles

A KARAPINAR KILIM

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WALTER B. DENNY A discussion of a Central Anatolian kilim from the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection leads to comment on the state of the art of kilims

MUNICH 1910

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100 Years On EVA-MARIA TROELENBERG To mark the Centenary of the ‘Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst’ exhibition, an account of the genesis of the 1910 event and of the commemorative events held in Munich this autumn

POPE AND CHICAGO

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The Emergence of a Persian Art Collection YUKA KADOI Analysis of the role Arthur Upham Pope played in the 1920s and 1930s in the development of the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of ‘later’ Persian art

MÉLANGES DES GENRES

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JAMES W. REID Three rare and remarkable pre-Columbian chest vestments adorned with silver plaques excavated in the 1920s near the Pachacamac sanctuary south of Lima

FANTASY, FABLE AND FOLKLORE

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BEN EVANS A collection of Swedish folk textiles assembled by London dealer Clive Loveless for a private client

CONTEXT EXHIBITIONS Raphael tapestries and cartoons at the V&A; The Shahmama at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum; ‘A Passage to Asia’ at BOZAR, Brussels; William Morris in Cumbria; ‘Life, Death & Magic – Indonesian ancestral art’ at the NGA, Canberra; Caucasian rugs in Gothenburg; ‘To Dye For’ at the De Young Museum, San Francisco; Islamic Art from the Farjam Collection in Dubai; Oriental Bags in Traunstein; The Sartirana Textile Art Fair 91 CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide 112 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Recent sales in Europe and the USA 117 BOOKS William Robinson reviews CarpetsandTextilesintheIranianWorld1400-1700 133 PARTING SHOTS From Kabul,Thessalonika, Pordenone, London and Sartirana 146 FIRST VIEW An Indian Mata Hari trade cloth in Canberra 148

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