Persian Pottery in the First Global Age

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26085-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 200 mm x 266 mm, Gewicht: 1765 g

Reihe: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World

Persian Pottery in the First Global Age: the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries studies the ceramic industry of Iran in the Safavid period (1501–1732) and the impact which the influx of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, heightened by the activities of the English and Dutch East Indies Companies after c. 1700, had on local production.
The multidisciplinary approach of the authors (Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason, Patricia Proctor, Eileen Reilly) leads to a reconstruction of the narrative about Safavid pottery and revises commonly accepted notions. The book includes easily accessible reference charts to assist in dating and provenancing Safavid pottery on the basis of diagnostic motifs, potters’ marks, petrofabrics, shapes, and Chinese models.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golombek, Lisa

B Mason, Robert

Proctor, Patricia

Reilly, Eileen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Keramik, Porzellan, Glaskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Conventions
Collections Cited
List of Important Dates
Maps

Introduction

Part I: Safavid Pottery and Society

Chapter One: Safavid Society and the Ceramic Industry

Iran under the Safavids (Lisa Golombek)
The Dynamics of Supply and Demand (Lisa Golombek)
The Potter
Chinese Porcelain in Safavid Iran
The Markets for Safavid Pottery
The Safavid Potter and the First Global Age
The Object: Shapes and Functions of Safavid Pottery (Lisa Golombek and Eileen Reilly)

Chapter Two: Dominant Fashions and Distinctive Styles: A History of the Ceramic Industry in Safavid Iran (Lisa Golombek)
China at the Door: The Sixteenth Century
China in the House: The Seventeenth Century
Phase I: 1615–1640
Phase II: 1640–1650
Phase III: 1650–1680
Phase IV: 1680–1722

Chapter Three: The Measure of Faithfulness: the Chinese Models for Safavid Blue-and-White (Patricia Proctor)

Chapter Four: The “Kubachi Problem” (Lisa Golombek)
The “Kubachi Problem”
The Isfahan/ Qumisheh Workshop

Chapter Five: The Safavid Workshops and Petrographic Analysis (Robert B. Mason)
Part II: Identifying Safavid Pottery – A Guide
Chapter Six: Diagnostic Motifs (Lisa Golombek and Eileen Reilly)
6.1 Rims: Sixteenth Century
6.2 Backs: Sixteenth Century
6.3 Backs: Seventeenth Century
6.4 Rims: Isfahan, Seventeenth Century

Chapter Seven: Potters’ Marks (Lisa Golombek and Robert B. Mason, and Eileen Reilly)
7.1 Seal-marks
7.2 Tassel-marks
7.3 Character-marks

Chapter Eight: Form Study (Eileen Reilly)

Part III: Catalogue of Safavid Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum (Lisa Golombek)
[images approx. 50 pp.]

Appendices

Appendix A
Dated vessels
Dated tiles
Appendix B
Concordance of the Safavid Ceramics Project Numbers

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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.