Author: CROWE, YOLANDE
Title: Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1501-1738
Description: La Borie. 2002, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0953819612). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 25.5 x 32.5 cm; 2.5 kg; 314 pages with black and white illustrations and a few in colour.; Minor signs of wear on the dust jacket. Signed by the author with dedication to a previous owner on front free endpaper. The remaining interior looks as new.; Persia and China is the first catalogue of blue and white Persian ceramics of the Safavid dynasty. It is a catalogue raisonné of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the largest in the world, consisting of over 500 ceramics mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries. General Sir Richard Murdoch Smith was the first to recognize the need to create a comprehensive Islamic Persian collection for what was then known as the South Kensington Museum. The largest part of the collection was put together during the period he spent in Persia from 1865 to 1885 and subsequently as director of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. Murdoch Smith was also the first to grasp the importance of the position of Persia on the sea route between western Europe and eastern Asia, and its impact on the production of Persian ceramics. This present study deals with the changing relations between the designs and shapes of Safavid blue and white ceramics and their models, both from the Far East and Europe. Yolande Crowe has written extensively on the architecture and decorative arts of Islam. A particular preoccupation has been the relationship between these arts and their Chinese prototypes, especially the blue and white porcelains of Jingdezhen. She has also worked on archaeological material from Islamic sites in Afghanistan and Iran. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 0953819612 islamic art,persia,china,victoria and albert museum,blue and white persian ceramics,safavid dynasty Islamic Art


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