Ceramics from Islamic Lands

Name: Ceramics from Islamic Lands
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ISBN: 9780500976340

ISBN-10: 0500976341

ISBN-13: 9780500976340

Edition: 2006

Authors: Oliver Watson

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"This splendid catalog serves as the most current and magnificently illustrated introduction to Islamic ceramics now available. Essential."Choice Islamic potterythe fine ceramics made in the lands of Islam, from the Arab world and Turkey through Iran and into Central Asiais one of the hidden treasures of world ceramics. It has often been overshadowed by the ceramic legacy of China and Europe, yet it cedes nothing to these great traditions in technical inventiveness and beauty of design. Through close trading links and cultural interchange, Islamic potters have played a crucial role in the development of these other ceramic cultures. A catalogue of the al-Sabah collection in Kuwaitone of…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 2/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 8.66" wide x 10.83" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 5.302
Language: English



Preface




Islamic pottery : art, archaeology and collecting



Making and designing



Ceramic families and technical traditions



Islamic pottery to A.D. 1000



Islamic pottery A.D. 1000-1400



Islamic pottery from A.D. 1400



Restoration and faking of Islamic ceramics : case histories




Unglazed wares



Early "green-glazed" wares



Early wares : polychrome glaze-painting



Opaque white glazed wares



Abbasid lustreware



Splashed wares



Slip-painted wares



Buffwares



Iranian incised wares



Lustre pottery of the Fatimid period in Egypt



Syrian and Egyptian wares : 12th-13th century



Iranian fritware : 12th-13th century



Bamiyan fritwares



Silhouette and underglaze painted wares : Iran 12th-13th century



Iranian lustreware : 1170-1220



Minai enamel painting : Iran late 12th-early 13th century



Wares of the Mongol period in Iran : 13th-14th century



Syria and Egypt : 13th-14th century



Egyptian wares : 15th century



Ottoman pottery : Turkey 16th-18th century



Later Iranian pottery : 15th-19th century



Indian Mughal ceramics



Chinese porcelain