[Sca-cooks] Books on Dishes

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Volker Bach <carlton_bach at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Salvete
> 
> a quick question: I'm looking for good books on
> ceramics for use in serving Mediterranean cuisine
> (Arab, Italian, Spanish, Byzantine). I have Ken Dark:
> Byzantine Pottery (which is good). 
> 
> Now I've seen Geza Fehervari: Islamic Pottery and
> Arthur Lane: Later Islamic Pottery. Are these good? 
> 
> And especially - does anyone know where I can find
> more information on Italian and more generally Western
> ceramics? 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Giano

Hi Giano!

My husband, Master Hroar, has also made a bibliography for Islamic Pottery books:

Islamic Pottery Bibliography

“Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum”
Geza Fehervari
ISBN 1-86064-430-9

“Early Islamic Pottery: Materials and Techniques”
Anne-Marie Keblow Bernsted
ISBN 1-873132-98-0

“Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery
from the Medieval Middle East”
Robert B.J. Mason
ISBN 1-56859-096-2

“Ceramics from Islamic Lands: Kuwait National Museum, The 
Al-Sabah Collection”
Oliver Watson
ISBN 0-500-97634-1

”Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria”
Marilyn Jenkins-Madina
ISBN 1-58839-184-1

“Ancient Iranian Ceramics; from the Arthur M Sackler Collections”
Trudy S. Kawami
ISBN 0-8109-193-3

“Ashmolean Museum: Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery”
J.W. Allan
Ashmolean Museum, publishers

“Benaki Museum Athens: Early Islamic Pottery. Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries”
Helen Philon
ISBN 0-85667-698-7

So, if the Geza Fehervari book we have is the same as the one you listed, then it is good.
I haven't seen the Arthur Lane book.

Since, Dragon posted the other bibliographies that my husband put together, I won't post them
again here.

Huette

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