The Mother-of-Pearl Overlay Furniture of Gujarat: A Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Indian Handicraft and Its Markets in the Islamic East and Europe (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, #5)

by Simon Digby

This monograph identifies for the first time a class of luxury objects of the period, and presents a closely-reasoned argument for their place of manufacture, their datings and chronological sequence, and the markets for which they were intended. The argument is based on a survey of the literary evidence, including inventories of old European collections and the evidence of travellers as well as references and inscriptions in Persian and other oriental languages. The corpus of surviving examples is listed, and their decoration subjected to detailed analysis as an aid to their classification and grouping. Scholars and students of Islamic and Indian art.

• ISBN10: 0197280099
• ISBN13: 9780197280096
• Publish Date: 1 January 1987
• Publish Status: Cancelled
• Out of Print: 21 May 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Oxford University Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 100
• Language: English