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Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world
art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan
xii, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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 / Finbarr Barry Flood -- A tubular bronze object from Khurasan / Lorenz Korn -- Persians abroad : the case of the Jamiʻ 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 Qāmūs al-Ṣināʻāt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright -- A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns -- The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Mariam Rosser-Owen -- The marble spolia from the Badiʻ 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 Museum / Oya Pancaroğlu -- 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.
edited by Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.