McClary, Richard Piran orcid.org/0000-0001-5663-5708 (2020) Calouste Gulbenkian, His Mīnāʾī Ware, and the Changing Islamic Art Market in the Early Twentieth Century. Muqarnas. An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. pp. 325-343. ISSN 0732-2992
Abstract
This article aims to provide a clearer understanding of the emerging market for Islamic art in the early decades of the twentieth century through a study of the changing purchasing habits of one European collector, Calouste Gulbenkian, and specifically his acquisition of mīnāʾī ware. Such an approach allows for a coherent, focused study that engages with the leading dealers, agents, and auction houses of the time. These were located primarily in Paris and, to lesser extent, New York and London, in the key period during which the Islamic art market became a major part of the broader art and antiquities business. The main focus is on the shift from buying newly excavated fragmentary material from Armenian dealers to purchasing seemingly complete, but heavily restored, bowls from established collections sold at the leading auction houses. Each of the pieces in Gulbenkian’s collection of mīnāʾī ware is examined in detail, and a new taxonomic classification is presented for this well known, but still poorly understood, class of Islamic ceramics.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2020. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Gulbenkian – Armenian – mīnāʾī – collecting – auctions – dealers – Seljuq – repairs – provenance – Persian – ceramics – Islamic |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History of Art (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 11 May 2020 12:50 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 16:33 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/22118993-00371P13 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/22118993-00371P13 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160576 |
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