ARS ORIENTALIS. The Arts of Islam and the East. Volume II . volume 2. Charles Lang Freer Centenial Volume.

Published by Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, University of Michigan., 1957

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30.5 x 23cm. vii, 637pp., 1h. With plates, drawings and maps (some folding). Hardback, publisher's cloth. The contributions are: K.N.Rhoades. An appreciation of C.L.Freer. Smith. Finds of ancient glass in North Africa. H.Terrasse. La Mosquée d'Al-Qarawiyin à Fès et l'art des Almoravids. A.Grohmann. The origin and development of floriated kufic. D.Shepherd. A dated Hispano-Islamic silk. S.Cammann. Ancient symbols in modern Afghanistan. B.Segall. Sculpture from Arabia Felix. The earliest phase. B.Goldman. Achaemenian capes. S.Fajans. Recent Russian literature on newly found Middle Eastern metal vessels. R.Girshman. Argenterie d'un seigneur Sassanide. R.J.Gettens & C.L.Waring. The composition of some ancient persian and other Near Eastern silver objects. K.Otto-Dorn. Grabung in Umayyadischen Rusafah. J.Schacht. An unknown type of minbar and its historical significance. J.Kierkman. Takwa - the Mosque of the Pillar. G.C.Miles. Early Islamic tombstones from Egypt. J.C.Gardin. Poteries de Bamiyan._x000B_ A.Lane. The Otterman pottery of Isnik. D.S.Rice. Inlaid brasses from the workshop of Ahmed al-Dhaki. R.Ettinghausen. The 'Wade Cup' in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Its origin and decoration. E.Kühnel. Abbasid silks of the ninth century. B.W.Robinson. Prince Baysonghor?s Nazami. A speculation. R.Skelton. The Mughal artist farrokh Beg. R.H.Pindar Wilson. Three illustrated manuscripts of the Mughal perouiod. J.Wilkinson. An Indian manuscript of the Golestan of the Shah Jahan period. H.Goetz. The first golden age of Udaipur. M.Loehr. The stratigraphy of Hsiao-T'un (Anyang). A.Wenley. 'A breath of Spring' by Tsou Fu-Lei. S.Lee. Some problems in Ming and Ch'ing landscape painting. With Notes, Book Reviews & In Memoriam. Spine rubbed, paper covered inner hinge torn but leaving cloth joint firm. Seller Inventory # ch14.1338

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Title: ARS ORIENTALIS. The Arts of Islam and the ...

Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, University of Michigan.

Publication Date: 1957

Binding: Hardback, publisher's cloth.

Condition: Bueno