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Author: Lisa Golombek ,
Robert B. Mason ,
Patricia Proctor ,
Eileen Reilly
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Weight: 1.348kg
ISBN: 9789004547254
ISBN 10: 9004547258
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 26 July 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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The Safavid period was a truly global age evidenced by its material culture. In this ground-breaking survey of both elite Iranian pottery and imported Chinese porcelain, Lisa Golombek and her team have separated out fact from fiction and extracted revelatory details from a paucity of documentary sources, to unravel a concise linear narrative. This critical survey places this overlooked luxury ware in its socio-economic and cultural context. Consumption is introduced through discussions of shape and purpose; caravanserai, Armenian merchants and East India Company distribution networks; and the importance of contemporary connoisseurship, imperial collecting and royal kitchens is introduced. The commoditization of the potteries, potters and technological innovations are other themes of discourse. Ubiquitous chinoiseries and other foreign patterns are justified by fashionability, inextricably linked with all luxury goods. Integrating modern petrography and archaeology with traditional art history, explored in Tamerlane's Tablewares, has further clarified the mystery of marks and production centres. Golembek, with authors Robert Mason, Patricia Proctor, and Eileen Reilly are to be lauded for providing a level platform for future researchers to build on. - Patricia Ferguson, Consulting Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum ... l'ensemble constitue a n'en pas douter un ouvrage de reference, tres attendu, et une reelle avancee pour l'histoire de la ceramique iranienne des xvie et xviie siecles. Le fonds de ceramiques safavides du ROM est interessant, sans etre exceptionnel ou particulierement diversifie ; en faisant de cette collection le moteur d'un programme de recherche, Lisa Golombek est parvenue a allier a merveille conservation et recherche, haussant ainsi cette collection au rang de reference . - Sandra Aube, in: BCAI 31 (2016)
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Lisa Golombek, Ph.D. (1968) University of Michigan, is Curator Emeritus (Royal Ontario Museum) and Professor Emeritus (University of Toronto). Her publications on Islamic art range from architecture to portable objects and include The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan (Princeton University Press 1988) and Tamerlane’s Tableware (ROM press 1996). Robert Mason, D. Phil (1994) University of Oxford, is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and is an archaeological scientist at the Royal Ontario Museum. He has published widely on the typology, technology, and provenance of the ceramics of the Islamic world, including Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East (ROM press, 2004). Patricia Proctor : M.A. (1968) University of Toronto, is a retired Curator of Chinese Ceramics at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has played an active role in exhibitions and galleries at the ROM and published translations and articles on Chinese ceramics. Eileen Reilly: M.A. (1998) is a collections care specialist, artist, editor and appraiser. She has worked at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
