From Ordinary to Luxury

Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-3-95490-387-0
Verlag: Reichert Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 927 g

Reihe: Studies on the Bumiller Collection

“From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight into the most diverse wares of daily life. Pierre Siméon’s expertise and hands-on experience as an archaeologist are invaluable assets for the knowledge of provenance and distribution of Iranian and Central Asian pottery. Apart from that, his study takes into account the works of our Russian colleagues, that have gone without adequate acknowledgement for decades due to the language barrier.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siméon, Pierre

Daiber, Verena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Über Autor(innen)

Pierre Siméon is a French archaeologist, specialised on the Islamic world with a focus on Central Asia. He completed his MA at the Islamic Art History department at the Paris IV Sorbonne University and holds a PhD from the Islamic Archaeology department at the Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
Since 2000 he has been working with several international teams in archaeological excavations in Bahrain, Mongolia, Pakistan, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Siméon is an internationally active expert with a main focus on the material culture in order to understand the economic and social history of mediaeval Islamic society.

Verena Daiber completed her MA in Near Eastern archaeology and Arabic literature at the Free University of Berlin. She participated in excavations in Syria and Lebanon, studying medieval pottery, architecture and text sources. From 2001 to 2006 she was research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Damascus. In 2009 she gained her PhD at the University of Bamberg with a thesis on the 18th century public architecture of Damascus. She has been teaching at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Bamberg. Since 2017 she is the curator of the Bumiller Collection / University Museum of Islamic Art in Bamberg. Her focus is on exploring the textual and material culture of medieval Central Arabic lands and Iran.