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Medieval Islamic ceramics from Old Cairo, through the diversity of their techniques, forms and colourful decoration, aroused the enthusiasm of Western amateurs in the late 19th century. This caused an intensification of collecting through various means: surveys by individuals and professionals, early limited excavations. The study and provenance of these collections of Fustat ceramics made between the late 19th and the early 20th century highlights the issues of the modes of acquisition and the interactions between dealers' networks and collectors. It also invites the scholar to reexamine the provenance and journey of certain objects.
In recent decades important studies have been written about Spanish ceramics found in Italy and the commercial mechanics which transferred these wares from the Iberian to the Italian Peninsula. The Italian merchants who were responsible for circulating these ceramics also carried them much further afield, but in contrast the Eastern Mediterranean destinations of these wares have been almost completely neglected. Very little has been written on the import of Spanish ceramics into Egypt and the Levant, and the implications of this for Mediterranean trade. This article will present a selection of the Spanish ceramic fragments in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, which come from the pottery mounds of Fustat, the Islamic capital of Egypt before the foundation of Cairo, which remained the city’s main population centre until the late 12th century, though it was occupied until the 15th century. Unofficial excavations here in the late 19th century, followed by official but unstratified excavations in the early 20th century, have yielded millions of finds, the vast majority being potsherds. British travellers to Egypt collected these and later pre- sented them to the V&A. On the basis of a discussion of the most significant examples of Spanish ceramics from Fustat now in the V&A’s collections, this article will make general observations about Mediterranean trade between the 12th and 15th centuries, and pose some questions to inform future research.
Bulletin des Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire 82/2011, Brussels, 119-168. , 2013
Faenza 2017/1, 2017
In the first part of this article I outlined the historical and technological background to the production of “Fusṭāṭ Fāṭimid sgraffito” wares (“FFS”) between the 11th and 12th centuries, trough a selection of material now kept in the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (from the so-called “Martin Collection”) and in other important museum collections worldwide. In the second part I discussed the technical, morphological, and stylistic aspects of “FFS” within a plausible chronological framework, based on the same material. In this third and final part, I will concentrate on the evidence for trade of “FFS” within Egypt and across the Mediterranean, and on the impact that this distinctive production had on the Syrian and Iranian incised frit-wares of the 12th century and beyond.
Faenza 2015/2, 2015
In the first part of this article I attempted to outline the historical and technological background to the production of “Fusṭāṭ Fāṭimid sgraffito” wares (“FFS”) between the 11th and 12th centuries, trough a selection of material now kept in the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (from the so-called “Martin Collection”) and in other important museum collections worldwide. Based on the same material, I shall discuss here the technical, morphological, and stylistic aspects of “FFS” within a plausible chronological framework. The third part of this article, still to be published, will deal with the trade of “FFS” within Egypt and across the Mediterranean, and with the impact that this distinctive production had on the Syrian and Iranian incised frit-wares of the 12th century and beyond.
The Art Book, 2008
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, ed. Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman (Indiana University Press, 2022), 2022
A new ethnoarchaeological documentation project at the Fustat pottery workshops, Egypt
This brief article introduces a new etbnoarchaeological project concerning potters 0f the Fustdt area in Cairo. Currently the potters are being euicted jiom their worhshops, which utill be replaced by new, gouernment-buib workshops. This process will lead to the disap-?earance of a traditional potters quarter. An ethnoarchaeological project by tbe Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and Leiden Uniuersity aims to document the already partly demolished quarter and study the potters before they relocate.
Journal of the American Research Centre in Egypt XXVII: 165-184., 1990
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