Ceramics from Islamic lands
By: Oliver Watson.
Contributors: Matḥaf al-Kuwayt al-Waṭanī; Dār al-Āthār al-Islāmīyah (Kuwait, Kuwait)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson in association with The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait National Museum
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Sabah, Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad -- Art collections -- Catalogs.; Pottery, Islamic -- Catalogs.; Pottery -- Private collections -- Kuwait -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-506) and index.
Table of contents: title: Islamic pottery: art, archaeology and collecting; title: Making and designing; title: Ceramic families and technical traditions; title: Islamic pottery to A.D. 1000; title: Islamic pottery A.D. 1000-1400; title: Islamic pottery from A.D. 1400; title: Restoration and faking of Islamic ceramics: case histories / Kirsty Norman; title: Unglazed wares; title: Early "green-glazed" wares; title: Early wares: polychrome glaze-painting; title: Opaque white glazed wares; title: Abbasid lustreware; title: Splashed wares; title: Slip-painted wares; title: Buffwares; title: Iranian incised wares; title: Lustre pottery of the fatimid period in Egypt; title: Syrian and Egyptian wares: 12th-13th century; title: Iranian Fritware: 12th-13th century; title: Bamiyan Fritwares; title: Silhouette and underglaze painted wares: Iran 12th-13th century; title: Iranian lustreware: 1170-1220; title: Minai enamel painting: Iran late 12th-early 13th century; title: Wares of the Mongol period in Iran: 13th-14th century; title: Syria and Egypt: 13th-14th century; title: Egyptian wares: 15th century; title: Ottoman pottery: turkey 16th-18th century; title: Later Iranian pottery: 15th-19th century; title: Indian Mughal ceramics; title: Chinese porcelain.