Islamic ceramics & glass reading list
Reading list for Islamic ceramics and glass.
Allan, James W., Islamic Ceramics, Oxford, 1991. ISBN. 1854440225
Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian (ed. Yanni Petsopoulos), Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989. ISBN. 0500973741
Atil, Esin, Ceramics from the World of Islam, Washington, D.C., 1975
Bahrami, Mehdi, Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949. ISBN. 0939214547 (reprint)
Bayramoglu, Fuat, Turkish Glass Art and Beykoz-Ware, Istanbul, 1976
Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in the Islamic and the Western World, London, 1985. ISBN. 0571135072
Caiger-Smith, Alan, Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware, London, 1973. ISBN. 0571093493
Carboni, Stefano, Glass from Islamic Lands: The Al-Sabah Collection, London, 2001. ISBN. 0500976066
Carboni, Stefano and Whitehouse, David, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001. ISBN. 0870999869
Carswell, John, Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World, Chicago, 1985. ISBN. 0935573003
Carswell, John, Iznik Pottery, London, 1998. ISBN. 0714114820
Clairmont, Christoph W., Catalogue of Ancient and Islamic Glass (Benaki Museum), Athens, 1977
Crowe, Yolande, Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1501-1738, London, 2002.ISBN. 0953819612
Degeorge, Gérard and Porter, Yves, The Art of the Islamic Tile, Paris, 2002. ISBN. 208010876X
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection, London, 1973. ISBN. 0571094015
Fehérvári, Géza, Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, London and New York, 2000. ISBN. 1860644309
Fukai, Shinji, Persian Glass, New York, Tokyo and Kyoto, 1977. ISBN. 083481515X
Grube, Ernst J., Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976. ISBN. 057109953X
Hasson, Rachel, Early Islamic Glass (L. A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art), Jerusalem, 1979
Kröger, Jens, Nishapur: Glass of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1995. ISBN. 0870997297
Lamm, Carl Johan, Glass from Iran in the National Museum, Stockholm, Stockholm and London, 1935
Lane, Arthur, Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia, London, 1947. ISBN. 0571064639
Lane, Arthur, Later Islamic Pottery: Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey (revised ed.), London, 1971. ISBN. 057104736X
Öney, Gönül, Turkish Period Çanakkale Ceramics, Ankara, 1971
Philon, Helen, Early Islamic Ceramics: Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries (Benaki Museum, Athens), London, 1980. ISBN. 0856670987
Porter, Venetia, Medieval Syrian Pottery, Oxford, 1981. ISBN. 0900090820
Porter, Venetia, Islamic Tiles, London, 1995. ISBN. 1566561914
Rackham, Bernard, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica: Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection, London, 1959
Ray, Anthony, Spanish Pottery, 1248-1898, London, 2000. ISBN. 185177291X
Ward, Rachel (ed.), Gilded and Enamelled Glass from the Middle East, London, 1998. ISBN. 0714114782
Watson, Oliver, Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985. ISBN. 0571132359
Watson, Oliver, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004. ISBN. 0500976295
Wilkinson, Charles K., Iranian Ceramics, New York, 1963
Wilkinson, Charles K., Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1973. ISBN. 0870990764
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