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    Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world : art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan / edited by Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen

    • Title:Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world : art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan / edited by Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Porter, Venetia.
      Rosser-Owen, Mariam.
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York ; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Islamic metal-work--History.
      Islamic metal-work--Social aspects.
      Material culture--Islamic countries.
    • Description:xii, 530 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781780763231
      1780763239
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Principle of Parsimony and the Problem of the `Mosul School of Metalwork' / Julian Raby
      pt. 1 Metalwork From The Iranian World
      2. Metalwork and Fourteenth-century Persian Painting: a Footnote / Teresa Fitzherbert
      3. Die-engraver of Balkh (290/902-302/914) / Luke Treadwell
      4. Ugly Duckling of Iranian Metalwork? Initial Remarks on Qajar Copper and Copper-alloy Objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Katherine Eremin
      pt. 2 Iran And India
      5. Gilding, Inlay and the Mobility of Metallurgy: a Case of Fraud in Medieval Kashmir / Finbarr Barry Flood
      6. Tubular Bronze Object from Khurasan / Lorenz Korn
      7. Persians Abroad: the Case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand
      pt. 3 Mamluk Metalwork In Focus
      8. Extraordinary Mamluk Casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward
      9. Mamluk Tray and its Journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley
      10. Arabic Titles, Well-wishes and a Female Saint: a Mamluk Basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols
      pt. 4 Egypt And Syria: Artefact And Text
      11. Bronze Tambourine Player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif
      12. Fatimid Bronze Hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis
      13. Group of Round Boxes from the Metal Hoard Found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester
      14. Islamic Embroideries from Egypt: Shifts in Taste, Change in Status / Ruth Barnes
      15. Metalworking in Damascus at the End of the Ottoman Period: an Analysis of the Qamus al-Sina'at al-Shamiyya / Marcus Milwright
      pt. 5 Islamic West
      16. Bronze Pillar Lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns
      17. Metal Mounts on Andalusi Ivories: Initial Observations / Mariam Rosser-Owen
      18. Marble Spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Stephen Vernoit
      pt. 6 Ceramic Technology And Innovation
      19. Glaze-decorated Unglazed Wares / Oliver Watson
      20. Pearl Cups Like the Moon: the Abbasid Reception of Chinese Ceramics and the Belitung Shipwreck / Jessica Hallett
      21. Branding `Tradition' in Contemporary Tin-glaze Pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi
      pt. 7 Studies In Lustreware
      22. Lion, the Hare and Lustreware / Fahmida Suleman
      23. Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid Lustreware: a Succession / Alan Caiger-Smith
      24. Potter's Trail: an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Museum / Oya Pancaroglu
      pt. 8 Painting Traditions And Contemporary Art
      25. 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
      26. Modern Palimpsests; What Defines a Fake? / Emilie Savage-Smith
      27. `Neo-calligraphism' and its Different Varieties in Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art / Hamid Keshmirshekan
      28. Meem 1958, by Siah Armajani / Venetia Porter.
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