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January 27, 2006
Oliver Watson Ceramics From Islamic Lands Kuwait: Thames and Hudson in association with Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait National Museum, al-Sabah Collection, 2003. 512 pp.; 900+ color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0500976295)
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This deluxe catalogue featuring Islamic ceramics from the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait is a welcome addition to the literature on the subject. Although a few catalogues of Islamic ceramics collections have been published in the twenty-first century (for example, Géza Fehérvári’s Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, London: I.B.Tauris, 2000), the exceptional quality and range of the al-Sabah collection set it apart. In the introductory chapters of Ceramics from Islamic Lands,...