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EDINBURGH STUDIES IN ISLAMIC ART SERIES EDITOR:ROBERT HILLENBRAND
Islamic Chinoiserie THE ART OF MONGOL IRAN YUKA KADOI
Is lamic C h inoise r ie
Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art Series Editor: Professor Robert Hillenbrand Advisory Editors: Bernard O’Kane and Jonathan M. Bloom Titles include: Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran Sussan Babaie Minaret: Symbol of Islam Jonathan M. Bloom Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran Yuka Kadoi
Islamic Chinoiserie The Art of Mongol Iran
Yuka Kadoi
Edinburgh University Press
© Yuka Kadoi, 2009 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh www.euppublishing.com Typeset in 10/12 pt Trump Mediaeval by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and Printed in Spain at Graficas Santamaria S. A. by arrangement with Associated Agencies Ltd, Oxford A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 3582 5 (hardback) The right of Yuka Kadoi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published in association with al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait.
Contents
List of Figures Series Editor’s Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Abbreviations INTRODUCTION
vi xii xiii xv xvi 1
CHAPTER 1 Textiles
15
CHAPTER 2 Ceramics
39
CHAPTER 3 Metalwork and Other Miscellaneous Objects
74
CHAPTER 4 Manuscript Painting 1
123
CHAPTER 5 Manuscript Painting 2
162
CHAPTER 6 Manuscript Painting 3
198
CONCLUSION
237
References Illustration Acknowledgements Index
239 278 283
Figures
0.1 0.2 1.1 1.2
1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 2.1 2.2
East–West overland and maritime trade routes Iran and its environs Dragons chasing flaming pearls. Silk tapestry. Central Asia, c. 1200–1300 Textile with lotus patterns. From the tomb of Cangrande della Scala (d. 1329). Lampas weave. Iran, c. 1300 Djeiran surrounded by teardrop units. Lampas weave. Eastern Iranian world, c. 1300 Djeiran with floral branches and moon. Tabby brocade. China, Jin dynasty Embroidery with cloud patterns. From the tomb of Hang Sheng. China, Southern Song dynasty Parrots and dragons. Silk and gold wrapped thread. Central Asia, c. 1300 Coiled dragons and clouds. Lampas weave. Eastern Iranian world, c. 1275–1350 Coiled dragons. Tabby brocade. China, Jin dynasty. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Textile with cloud and longevity motifs. China, Yuan dynasty Animals and birds amid flowers. Silk tapestry. China, Northern Song dynasty Birds and medallions. Lampas weave. Eastern Islamic world, c. 1250–1350 Phoenixes amid flowers. Silk tapestry. China, Yuan dynasty Tapestry woven roundel. Iraq or Iran, c. 1325 Hanging with confronted roosters and coiled dragons. Lampas weave. Central Asia, c. 1300 Cloud collar. China, Yuan dynasty Bowl with flaring sides, straight rim and low foot. Iran, twelfth century Bowl with moulded floral decoration. Ding ware. China, eleventh–twelfth centuries
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2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8
2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 3.1 3.2 3.3a 3.3b 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Jar with inscriptions. Iran, twelfth century Jar with peony scroll patterns. Cizhou ware. China, c. 1100–50 Figurine of a seated man, identified as Sultan Tughril. Fritware. Iran, thirteenth century Lustre tile with a dragon and lotuses. Iran, c. 1270–5 Star tiles with phoenixes and cross tiles. Iran, late thirteenth–early fourteenth centuries