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Exhibition Review
Fighting, Hunting, Impressing: Arms and Armour from the Islamic World 1500–1850
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 946-947
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Reviewer:
Bijl, Arthur (Bijl, Arthur)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
The David Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Islamic / Islamic art / Armour / Weapons / Metalwork
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fighting, Hunting, Impressing: Arms and Armour from the Islamic World 1500–1850 By Kjeld von Folsach, Joachim Meyer and Peter Wandel. 296 pp. incl. 237 col. + 12 b. & w. ills. (Strandberg Publishing, Copenhagen, 2021), £50. ISBN 978–87– 92596–10–9. | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
15. Dagger (katar) with scabbard. Indian, the Deccan, Hyderabad(?), 18th–19th century. Steel, wood, gold, rubies, diamonds, emeralds and textile, total length 35.9 cm., dagger length 33.8 cm. (David Collection, Copenhagen; photograph Pernille Klemp).
Non-western art unattributed:
16. Powder horn. India, Kota, 19th century. Horn, ivory, lead or pewter, iron, black lacquer and leather, height 14 cm. (David Collection, Copenhagen; photograph Pernille Klemp).
Non-western art unattributed:
17. Standard (alam). India, the Deccan, 18th century. Bronze, gold, silver, copper and black substance, height 45.5 cm. (David Collection, Copenhagen; photograph Pernille Klemp).
Exhibition Review
Epic Iran
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 826-839
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Reviewer:
Babaie, Susan (Babaie, Susan)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Iran / Persia
styles:
Achaemenid / Parthian / Sassanian / Islamic / Safavid
subjects:
History / Ceramics / Metalwork / Manuscripts / Archaeology / Architectural history / Mosques / Paintings / Silverwork
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Epic Iran Victoria and Albert Museum, London 29th May–12th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Ladies around a samovar, by Isma’il Jalayir. c.1870s. Oil on canvas, 156.5 by 213 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Qaran unhorses Barman. Tabriz, Iran, c.1525–35. Ink, watercolour and gold on paper, 47 by 31.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Figurine of a man. 3200–2900 BC. Bronze, height 17.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Full-size painted copy of a section of the interior of the dome of the Mosque of Sheikh Lutfallah, Isfahan. 1877. Oil and pigments on canvas, 1024 by 216 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Book Review
Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 379-380
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Reviewer:
Cabrera Lafuente, Ana (Cabrera Lafuente, Ana)
Subjects
places:
Silk Road
subjects:
Islamic / Textiles / al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road By Friedrich Spuhler. 400 pp. incl. 500 col. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2020),  50. ISBN 978–0–500–97084–3. | :
Book Review
Precious Indian Weapons and Other Princely Accoutrements. By Salam Kaoukji; Rajput Arms & Armour: The Rathores & Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort. By Robert Elgood
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 880-882
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Reviewer:
Bijl, Arthur (Bijl, Arthur)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Jodhpur, Maharajah of / al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
subjects:
Weapons / Armour / Collections / Indian / Islamic
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Precious Indian Weapons and Other Princely Accoutrements By Salam Kaoukji. 504 pp. incl. 538 col. + 1 b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2017), $50. ISBN 978–0–500–97081–2. Rajput Arms & Armour: The Rathores & Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort By Robert Elgood. Two vols, 1024 pp. incl. 851 col. + 9 b. & w. ills. (Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2017), £200. ISBN 978–93–85285–70–7. | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Goat-head knife. Mughal dominions, c.1600–50. Hilt carved from nephrite jade, eyes inlaid with gold and set with rubies (at a later date?), blade of jawhar steel, overlaid with two colours of gold, length 27.5 cm. (Photograph Muhammad Ali and Robert Lorenzo).
Article
A dish from the Cantagalli workshop in the British Museum
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 816-823
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Author:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
art literature:
Robinson, J.C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913 / Franks, Augustus Wollaston / Fortnum, Charles Drury
artists:
Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel / Beaumont, Adalbert de / Delacroix, Eugène / Leighton, Frederic, First Baron Leighton of Stretton / De Morgan, William / Vollon, Antoine
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890 / Stibbert, Frederick / Schwiter, Baron Louis-Auguste / Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emilien
dates:
1850-1899 / 2010-2019
media:
Maiolica / Ceramics / Drawings / Watercolours / Interiors
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France / Musée national de céramique, Sévres, France / Bethnal Green Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Italy / Florence / Turkey / Iznik
subjects:
Damascus Pottery (Iznik) / Cantagalli manufactory, Florence, Italy / Workshops (Organisations) / Plates / Dishes / Colour / Ornament / Pigments / Glazes / Fatimid pottery syles / Valencian / Mamluk / Islamic / Ottoman / Orientalism / Pottery / Decorative arts / Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Gifts / Bequests / Art museums / Catalogues / Provenance / Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Iznik-style dish, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1890–95. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 41 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of the dish illustrated in Fig.1, showing the cockerel mark for the Cantagalli workshop.
Attributed works:
3. Iznik-style dish with scalloped edge and floral sprays, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1899. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 39 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Iznik-style vase, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. 1883. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 57 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Curiosités, by Antoine Vollon. 1868. Canvas, 264 by 192 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. The sixteenth-century room at Hertford House, London, looking north, by J.J.Thomson. c.1890. Photograph. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Iznik rimless dish with flower sprays, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1550. Fritware painted in underglaze blues, green and mauve, diameter 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Iznik dish with peahen amid prunus branches, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1580–90. Fritware painted in underglaze blue, green and red, diameter 47.4 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Western art unattributed:
7. The comte de Nieuwerkerke’s collections in his private apartments in the Louvre, unknown photographer. c.1865. Stereoscopic glass negative. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Book Review
Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven. Edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 477
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Reviewer:
Chojnacka, Monica (Chojnacka, Monica)
Subjects
dates:
1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
Jerusalem
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Cultural history / Early Christian / Muslim / Islamic / Jewish / Art objects
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
31. St Peter heals Tabitha, from the St Peter capital. Nazareth, early 1170s (Terra Sancta Museum, Basilica of the Annunciation, Nazareth)
Book Review
Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by David G. Alexander, with contributions by Stuart W. Pyhrr and Will Kwiatkowski
08/2016 | 1361 | 158
Pages: 652
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Reviewer:
Stanley, Tim (Stanley, Tim)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Collections, Public / Islamic / Islamic art / Armour / Weapons
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
49. Yatagan. Ottoman. c.1525 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Article
Matisse and the khayamiya: an Egyptian curtain unveiled
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 843-845
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Author:
Bowker, Sam (Bowker, Sam)
Subjects
artists:
Matisse, Henri
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
subjects:
French painting / Visual sources / Textiles / Egyptian / Appliqué (visual works and technique) / Cut-paper works / Collections, Private / Islamic / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Interior with Egyptian curtain, by Henri Matisse. 1948 (Phillips Collection, Washington)
Attributed works:
32. Interior in Nice, by Henri Matisse. c.1920 (Private collection)
Attributed works:
33. Group de ul (Docteur en religion), by Emile Bechard. 1870s (Ken and Jenny Jacobsen Orientalist Photography Collection, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)
Attributed works:
34. Odalisque with arms raised, by Henri Matisse. 1921 (Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo)
Attributed works:
35. Matisse in the Villa Le Rêve at Vence, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1943-44 (Courtesy Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos / Snapper Media)
Non-western art unattributed:
31. Khedival khayamiya from the estate of Henri Matisse (Private collection)
Exhibition Review
Gifts of the Sultans. Los Angeles and Houston
10/2011 | 1303 | 153
Pages: 702-703
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
places:
United States / Los Angeles / Houston
print:
Islamic art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Islamic art / Islamic / Muslim / Gifts / Persian / Diplomacy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts | institution: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , institution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
86. Sardonyx cameo. Mughal India, seventeenth century. 6.7 by 7.2 cm. (Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
87. Jewelled gold case for a bezoar (Goa stone). Probably Indo-Portuguese, seventeenth century. 10.3 by 7.6 cm. (Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
88. Poems of Hilali, from the Ardabil shrine, Iran. Qazvin or Mashhad, AH 967/1568 AD. 23.8 by 14.5 cm. (page). (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).
Non-western art unattributed:
89. Latticino mosque lamp, with stencilled decoration. Venice and Ottoman Turkey, sixteenth century. 28 cm. high. (Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul; exh. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).
Article
An Islamic metalwork pomander in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
07/2011 | 1300 | 153
Pages: 444-446
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Author:
McClure, Stephanie (McClure, Stephanie)
Subjects
dates:
1100-1199
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
print:
Islamic sculpture
subjects:
Collections, Public / Islamic sculpture / Islamic art / Islamic / Iranian / Persian / Metalwork / Brass
subjects:
Pomanders
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Pomander. Iran, Seljuk, twelfth century. Brass, cast, incised and pierced, 12.4 cm. high. (Metro­politan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Side view of Fig.1.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of the rear view of Fig.1.
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Pomander. Probably Eastern Persia, twelfth or thirteenth century. Brass, cast, incised and pierced, 24.5 cm. high. (Private collection; courtesy of Sotheby’s Picture Library).
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Rear view of Fig.4.
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Incense burner. Iran, twelfth century. Bronze, 17.6 cm. high. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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