Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World
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[Book]
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:Art, Craft and Text : Essays Presented to James W. Allan
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/ Edited by Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owe
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London ; New York
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: I.B. Tauris & Co, Ltd
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, 2012.
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xii, 530 p.
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: , ill., charts
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Introduction / Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen - The principle of parsimony and the problem and the 'Mosul School of Metalwork' / Julian Raby - Metalwork and fourteenth-century Persian painting : a footnote / Teresa Fitzherbert - The die-engraver of Balkh (290/902-302/914) / Luke Treadwell - The ugly ducking of Iranian metalwork? : initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin - Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Lorenz Korn - Persians abroad : the case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand - An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward - A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley - Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols - A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif - The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis - A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester - Islamic Embroideries - from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes - Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qamus al-Sina'at al-Shamiyya / Marcus Milwright - A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns - The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Miriam Rosser-Owen - The marble spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit - Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson - Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid Reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett - Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi - The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman - Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith - Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Musuem / Oya Pancaroaeglu - From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. Landau - Modern palimpsests : what defines a fake? / Emilie Savage-Smith - 'Neo-calligraphism' and its different varieties in modern and contemporary Iranian art / Hamid Keshmirshekan - Meem 1958, by Siah Armajani / Venetia Porter