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The artistic achievements of the Islamic world chronicled over fourteen centuries.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22nd June - 23rd September 2007.
Under the imperial rule of the Meiji, who governed Japan from 1868 to 1912, traditional craftsmen developed a new style and reached a new level of technical excellence. This title presents a selection of over 100 examples of the best Meiji metalwork, enamel and metalware.
The Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands; it is continuing to grow and improve. It contains a large and comprehensive range of Qur'anic material, covering the entire history of Qur'an production from the seventh to the twentieth century, including examples from centres as far apart as Spain and India. This is the second of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection. Notable among the manuscripts in this volume is a Qur'an by the greatest calligrapher of the Middle Ages, Yaqut al-Musta`simi, which is exceptional in that it retains its original illumination. Other masterpieces include a Qur'an written in gold from twelfth-century Ira...
Ninety five colourful textile panels, woven in various techniques, illustrating the ful range of traditional designs of Scanian marriage weavings.
Art styles not defined by date.
This book catalogues the Khalili Collection's selection of Indian paintings produced by Muslim artists working in imperial Mughal courts, the Deccani sultanates, and the provincial cities of Oudh from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
The Nasser D. Khalili Collection contains a remarkable group of more than 600 finger rings from the Islamic world and beyond. These rings provide a rare opportunity to survey the history of this form in the Middle East and southern Asia over the last two millennia, for the oldest examples are two Hellenistic glass rings from athe second or first century BC, while the most recent dated specimen is a signet made in India in 1920. This wealth of evidence has allowed the author to present a typology of Islamic rings within a broad chronological framework, and the colour illustrations standard to the series have been supplemented by several drawings of each ring.
This second volume continues the presentation of the Khalili Collection's holdings in Islamic lacquer, the world's largest and most important collection. As well as illustrating all 450 objects, this two-volume catalogue provides a major new study of the subject by two of the leading authorities in the field, including Dr. Khalili himself.