This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...twelve early examples with descriptive notices by V. J. R. and a preface by Sir George Bird-wood. London, 1882. Do. Second Series. London, 1893. Ripley, Mary Churchill: The Oriental Rug Book. New York, 1904. Stebbing, Ed.: The Holy Carpet of the Mosque at Ardebil. London, 1893. Vienna Imperial Royal Austrian CommerCial Museum: Oriental Carpets. Edited by Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. Vienna, 1892-96. 3 vols. Ancient Oriental Carpets... being a supplement to... u Oriental Carpets," published i8c2-c6. Preface by the editor, A. von Scala; Introduction by W. Bode; Text by Fried-rich Sarre. Leipzig, 1906. Yerkes, Charles Tyson: Catalogue de luxe of the ancient rugs... belonging to... (his) estate... sold April, icio. New York, 1910. PART I TURKEY ASIA MINOR, ARMENIA, SYRIA RUGS I RUG WITH CHINESE DRAGON AND PH NIX CENTRAL ASIA MINOR, XIV CENTURY Field: Incomplete; showing two squares, each containing an octagonal field in yellow on which is represented in an archaic conventionalization the fight of the dragon and the phoenix, one of the oldest of Chinese motives. The animals are in blue and red. Filling the corners of the squares are hooked bars. Border: Red and black; the narrow strips defining the border show a simple geometrical design. Wool. Size: about 4 feet by 2 feet 8 inches. From a church in Central Italy; bought in Rome. Probably part of a rug with several similar fields. A rug of this kind is represented in a fresco painted by Domenico di Bartolo, about 1440-43 in the hospital at Siena. Two rugs with somewhat similar designs are represented in a cassone painting of a tournament in the Piazza S. Croce in the Jarves Collection at New Haven. This Florentine painting of the first half of the fifteenth century has been...