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Iranian Copper, Brass and Bronze - Of the late 14th to the mid-18th centuries in the Collection of the State Hermitage Museum (Hardcover)
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Iranian Copper, Brass and Bronze - Of the late 14th to the mid-18th centuries in the Collection of the State Hermitage Museum (Hardcover)
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In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was
(and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later
metalwork was collected almost by accident and has been
correspondingly little studied and poorly published, though in
recent decades the imbalance has been somewhat modified. The
Hermitage Collection, which numbers 162 pieces is the largest
collection in the world of later Iranian Islamic metalwork, from
the West of Iran as far as the Punjab. The great majority of these
are household utensils, and their manufacture is characteristic of
the middling levels of urban societies, though in Khurasan in the
late-15th and early 16th centuries brasses or bronzes inlaid with
gold and silver were made for its Timurid rulers. The substantial
numbers of Iranian copper-alloy astronomical instruments of this
period were made by different craftsmen, for a different public,
and deserve separate treatment, though not magic bowls, used in
folk-medicine and divination, which are noticed in this volume. In
his Introduction, Anatolii Ivanov gives a valuable directoryof
museums and other institutions of the former Soviet Union with
significant collections, which complement the holdings of the
Hermitage and together amount to a truly substantial corpus. The
latter were acquired from private collections, but the core of the
collection, from the museum attached to the school of industrial
drawing founded by Baron Stieglitz, came to the Hermitage in the
1920s, when this was broken up. As well as minutely detailed
descriptions of each piece and analyses of their decoration, Ivanov
presents a detailed critical survey of the limited documentary
evidence afforded by the inscriptions many pieces bear, which is of
permanent value as a basis for further scholars working on later
Islamic metalwork in general.
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