Copper, brass and bronze of Iran : from the late 14th to the mid-18th century in the Hermitage Collection /

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 mo...

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Main Author:	Ivanov, A. A. (Anatoliĭ Alekseevich), 1929- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Azimuth Editions, [2020]
Subjects:	Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) > Catalogs. Islamic art metal-work > Iran > Catalogs. Catalogs. Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) Islamic art metal-work. Iran.
Summary:	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.