Persia and China is the first catalogue raisonne to explore the collection of Blue and White Persian ceramics of the Safavid dynasty in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It is a study of over 500 pieces of glazed ceramics mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries, all photographed in black and white by the author. Most of the collection was acquired over a century ago in Persia where Major Richard Murdoch Smith RE, the enterprising director of the Indo European Telegraph Line, recognized the possibility of creating the ...
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Persia and China is the first catalogue raisonne to explore the collection of Blue and White Persian ceramics of the Safavid dynasty in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It is a study of over 500 pieces of glazed ceramics mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries, all photographed in black and white by the author. Most of the collection was acquired over a century ago in Persia where Major Richard Murdoch Smith RE, the enterprising director of the Indo European Telegraph Line, recognized the possibility of creating the first ever comprehensive Persian Collection for the Museum then known as the South Kensington Museum. This group of ceramics is part of a very large collection of Persian artefacts gathered during his years of service in Persia from 1865 to 1885. Murdoch Smith had grasped the importance of the geographical position of Persia on the sea route between Western Europe and Far Eastern Asia, and he understood how the historical background together with trading by the East India Companies, influenced the production of Persian ceramics. By taking all these factors into account, the diversity of the designs and shapes of these Persian ceramics caught between European and Far Eastern markets, can be better understood and enjoyed.
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Fair in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light overall wear to the boards, but with water-staining to the bottom 1" of the blue cloth covering on the front and back boards; Light discoloration to the bottom textblock edge while the top and right textblock edges are unblemished; There is light wrinkling to the bottom 1" of most of the text pages, but the wrinkling does not extend to the text areas of pages, readability is not affected, and there are no stuck-together pages; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75"-14" tall); Heavy (5.5 lbs); Large, Tall Format; Blue and white ceramics illustration to jacket with title in red/white lettering over blue cloth-covered boards; 2002, Thames & Hudson Ltd; 316 pages; "Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738, " by Yolanda Crowe.
