Title: Pots & pans : a Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics in the Muslim, Chinese, and Graeco-Roman Worlds, Oxford 1985 /
Authors: Vickers, Michael J.
Publisher: Published by Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Silverwork, Ancient Congresses.; Goldwork, Ancient Congresses.; Pottery, Ancient Congresses.; Orfèvrerie antique Congrès.; Céramique antique Congrès.
Contents: Classical Greek fictile imitations of precious metal vases / David W.J. Gill -- Tombs or hoards : the suvival of Chinese silver of the Tang and Song periods, seventh to thirteenmth centuries A.D. / Jessica Rawson -- The survival of precious and base metal objects from the medieval Islamic world / J.W. Allan -- Temple inventories in Ancient Greece / D.M. Lewis -- Some literary evidence for gold and silver vessels in the Ming period (1368-1644) / Craig Clunas -- Silver in Islamic Iran : the evidence from literature and epigraphy / Assadullah Suren Melikian-Chirvani -- The attitude towards gold and silver in early Islam / G.H.A. Juynboll -- Plate and its substitutes in Ottoman inventories / Michael Rogers -- Silver, copper and ceramics in ancient Athens / Michael Vickers -- Pottery and precious metals in the Roman world / Michael Fulford -- Precious metal -- its influence on Tang earthenware / W. Watson -- Tenth century Yue Ware and silver and gold / Mary Tregear -- Looking for silver in clay : a new perspective on Sāmānid ceramics / Julian Raby -- Pottery and metal shapes in Persia in the 12th and 13th centuries / Oliver Watson -- Notes on the colloquium on ceramis and metalware, Oxford, March 1985 / Alan Caiger-Smith -- Puritanism and positivism / Julian Raby and Michael Vickers.