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Early Islamic Ceramics
Philon, H
This catalogue of early Islamic pottery in the Benaki Museum, Athens, provides a comprehensive description of a remarkable collection viewed in the context of its historical background. Each of the 645 objects is fully described and illustrated, and there are additional chapters on the calligraphy and on the technical analysis carried out on a select group of sherds. 323p, many illus, 32 b/w and col pls (Catalogue of Islamic Art in the Benaki ...
Price GB £49.95
Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy (OIMP 26)
by Tanya Treptow
Archaeologists work with broken fragments to build pictures of life in past societies. In many excavations, the most abundant fragments we work with are broken pieces of ceramic vessels and objects (we call them "sherds"), which we find by the thousands in a typical dig. These sherds can tell us quite remarkable things about the past: when a site was occupied in history, what trade contacts it had, and what kinds of everyday activities people ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.99
Cobalt and Lustre: The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery
by Ernst J Grube with contributions by Manijeh Bayani, Derek Kennet, Peter Morgan, Nahla Nassar, Alastair Northedge and Cristina Tonghini
348p. (1995)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £135.00, Our Price GB £89.00
Sasanian and Islamic Pottery from Ras al-Khaimah
by Derek Kennet with Regina Krahl
This analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean between the Sasanian period in the 4th century AD and the present day is based on a classification of ceramics from Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Many thousands of fragments have been ...
Paperback. Price GB £34.00
Zabid Project Pottery Manual 1995
by Christopher Scull and Edward Keall
An excavation project to investigate the pre-Islamic and Islamic ceramics from the Zabid area of North Yemen. Seven excavations were carried out in urban contexts to recover a ceramic sequence. The finds range in date from c. 1500 BC to the present day, ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.00
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
Watson, Oliver
Paperback. Price GB £24.95
Ceramics of the Islamic World
Fehervari, Geza
A visually splendid volume that charts the artistic evolution of Islam through pottery from the regions of the Islamic world. Glorious tilework, such as that produced by Ottoman Turkey, is also included with a discussion of building techniques. Each ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00
Iznik: the Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics
Denny, Walter B.
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
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