RIGGISBERGER BERICHTE, Volume 6

Entlang der Seidenstrasse
Frühmittelalterliche Kunst zwischen Persien und China in der Abegg-Stiftung
(Along the Silk Road - Early Medieval Art between Persia and China)

A new group of silk textiles from between the 7th and 9th centuries have been causing a sensation among experts over the last few years. Their precise provenance is still unresolved. The fabrics were probably produced in the vast region between Persia and China and were made into clothing, saddle cloths and other objects. These sumptuous textiles draw their decorative imagery from the Sasanian design repertoire. They complement and thereby enrich our knowledge about the art of the Sasanians, with which we are already familiar from metalware, swords, sceptres, vases, glassware and ceramics. In this volume the Abegg-Foundation presents ten of these unique medieval weavings as well as selected stylistically related works of art from its collection.

Karel Otavsky
Stoffe von der Seidenstrasse: Eine neue Sammlungsgruppe in der Abegg-Stiftung
Regula Schorta
Beobachtungen zu frühmittelalterlichen Webtechniken
Amy Heller
Two Inscribed Fabrics and their Historical Context: Some Observations on Esthetics and Silk Trade in Tibet, 7th to 9th Century
Prudence O. Harper
Sasanian and Early Islamic Silver and Bronze Vessels
Pieter Meyers
Technical Examinations of Sasanian Silver Objects in Riggisberg
Bruno Overlaet
Sasanian Bronze Sculptures in the Werner Abegg Collection
Bruno Overlaet
Regalia of the Ruling Classes in Late Sasanian Times – The Riggisberg Strap Mountings, Swords and Archer’s Fingercaps
Jens Kröger
Gläser aus spätantiker und islamischer Zeit in der Abegg-Stiftung
Jens Kröger
Die Reliefplatten aus Chal Tarkhan-Eshqabad mit Enten und Weinblättern im sasanidischen Stil in der Abegg-Stiftung
St John Simpson
Gilt-Silver and Clay: A Late Sasanian Skeuomorphic Pitcher from Iran
Sheila S. Blair
An Inscribed Rock Crystal from 10th-Century Iran or Iraq