ISBN |
0300176414 (hbk.) |
9780300176414 (hbk.) |
Title |
In harmony : the Norma Jean Calderwood collection of Islamic art / edited by Mary McWilliams ; with essays by Jessica Chloros ... [et al.] |
Publisher |
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Art Museums, 2013 |
Physical desc. |
303 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 33 cm. |
Note |
Published to accompany an exhibition organized by the Harvard Art Museums and held at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum 31 January-1 June 2013. |
CBL illustrations: p. 153, fig. 5 (In 44.3). |
Ref. to CBL: p. 152-153; 154, n 11; 261, n 8. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-290) and index. |
Contents |
Preface: a harmony of purposes / Mary McWilliams -- Feasts of Nishapur: cultural resonances of tenth-century ceramic production in Khurasan / Oya Pancaroğlu -- History in pieces: conservation issues in Islamic ceramics / Anthony B. Sigel, with an introduction by Mary McWilliams -- Cobalt fingerprints in Islamic ceramics / Jessica Chloros and Katherine Eremin -- The Qajar lacquer object / David J. Roxburgh -- The illustrated Shāhnāma in sixteenth-century Shiraz / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Technical observations on a Shāhnāma manuscript / Penley Knipe, with material analysis by Katherine Eremin -- Beyond books: the art and practice of the single-page drawing in Safavid Iran / David J. Roxburgh -- The sati and the yogi: Safavid and Mughal imperial self-representation in two album pages / Sunil Sharma -- Inspiration and innovation: footprints from afar in the Calderwood collection / Walter B. Denny. |
Person as subject |
Calderwood, Norma Jean -- Art collections -- Exhibitions |
Corporate name |
Arthur M. Sackler Museum -- Exhibitions |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 44 |
Islamic art -- Exhibitions |
Art, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
Art -- Private collections -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Exhibitions |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
Added name(s) |
McWilliams, Mary 1954- ed. |