Pots & pans : a Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics in the Muslim, Chinese, and Graeco-Roman Worlds, Oxford 1985
Oxford ; New York : Published by Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1986. First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth boards; front board inner top edge scuffed. Remains very well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #477427
ISBN: 0197280056
Series; Oxford studies in Islamic art ; 3. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Classical Greek fictile imitations of precious metal vases / David W.J. Gill – Tombs or hoards : the survival of Chinese silver of the Tang and Song periods, seventh to thirteenth 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 S?m?nid ceramics / Julian Raby – Pottery and metal shapes in Persia in the 12th and 13th centuries / Oliver Watson – Notes on the colloquium on ceramics and metalware, Oxford, March 1985 / Alan Caiger-Smith – Puritanism and positivism / Julian Raby and Michael Vickers. Subjects; Silverwork, Ancient – Congresses. Goldwork, Ancient – Congresses. Pottery, Ancient – Congresses. Islamic pottery – Congresses.
Price: €75.00