Description
Benaki Museum, 1980. Paperback, 52 pp.; 23 cm; color plates and black-and-white illustrations. Foreword by Angelos Delivorrias.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy red pictorial card covers, white lettering and color photograph of a 10th-century East Persian bowl with birds to front, gold Benaki Museum seal to rear; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf and edge wear with a hint of color loss along edges, some light scuffing and soiling. Sewn binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Guide to the November 1980 exhibition "Islamic Art at the Benaki Museum," the first public presentation of the Museum's Islamic collections, formed by Antonis Benakis, following a study program begun in 1976. Helen Philon's introductory notes give a concise history of the Islamic world from pre-Islamic Arabia through the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Seljuqs, Mamluks, Safavids, Mughals and Ottomans. The catalogue describes 256 objects from the 9th to the 19th centuries, with inventory numbers and translated inscriptions: lustre ceramics (including pieces signed by the Fatimid potters Muslim and Saad), Iznik and Kutahya wares, carved wood and ivory, enamelled glass mosque lamps, inlaid metalwork, gold jewellery, silks and velvets, and manuscripts. Includes an ivory quadrant of 1340-41, with an entry by historian of astronomy David A. King. Includes select bibliography.