Early medieval textiles produced in the Near East

Lamm, Carl Johan. Some Woollen Tapestry Weavings from Egypt in Swedish Museums. (Le Monde Oriental XXX. 1936. Extrait).

€ 400.00

Scarce treatise on early medieval textiles produced in the Near East, investigating the relation between Sasanian and Egyptian art. The personal copy of Carl Johan Lamm with his bookplate to front pastedown. Contains detailed descriptions and images of 62 fragments of tapestry kept at the Stockholm National Museum, the Röhss Museum in Gothenburg, and the "Kulturen" museum in Lund.

Lamm studied archaeology at the University of Stockholm. He wrote about the glass excavated at Samarra in 1928 and became a leading scholar on Islamic arts and crafts, notably in glass and carpets. He was on the staff of the Stockholm Museum and taught at Uppsala University.

In near-mint condition. Offprint from vol. XXX of "Le Monde Oriental", a journal on oriental studies published in Uppsala from 1906.