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Silk & stone: the art of asia

Silk & stone: the art of asia
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ISBN 1898113203
Title Silk & stone : the art of asia / [editor : Jill Tilden]
Publisher London : Hali, 1996
Physical desc. 228 p. ; col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Series Hali annual 3
Note CBL illustrations: p. 32-41, 43-5, 186 (Per 119, fols. 3r, 15v, 9r, 32v, 16r, 36r, 14r, 29v)
Contents Monuments of the Deccan: Islamic architecture of the central Indian plateau / George Michell. -- The royal murals of Rajasthan: art in peril / Joachim Bautze. -- The message of misfortune: words and images in Saʻdī's Gulistan / Robert Hillenbrand. -- Farang saz: the impact of Europe on Safavid painting / Sheila Canby. -- The chiselled surface: Chinese lacquer and Islamic design / Yolande Crowe. -- China for Europe: export porcelain of the Qing dynasty / Colin D. Sheaf. -- The progress of Rama: the Ramayana in Khmer bas-reliefs of the Angkor period / Thierry Zéphir. -- Ritual & splendour: the gold of Indonesia / Kalpana Kartik. -- A fearful symmetry: the Mughal 'red-ground grotesque' carpets / Steven Cohen. -- Meibutsu-gire: textiles in the Japanese tea ceremony / Susan-Marie Best. -- The emperor's treasure house: seventh and eighth century textiles in the Shōsōin / Alan Kennedy. -- Silk of the Northern Song: reconstructing the evidence / Shelagh Vainker. -- All excellent qualities...: Chinese jade from the Neolithic to the Han / Carol Michaelson.
Person as subject Sa`di -- Gulistan
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 119
Art, Asian
Architecture, Islamic
Mural painting and decoration -- India -- Rajasthan
Painting, Iranian
Lacquer and lacquering -- China
China trade porcelain -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
Bas-relief -- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
Goldwork -- Indonesia
Carpets -- India
Japanese tea ceremony
Jade -- China
Silk industry -- China -- Song dynasty, 960-1279
Textile industry and fabrics -- Japan -- Nara-shi
Added name(s) Tilden, Jill
Hillenbrand, Robert
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