User:Sophia MacDonald/Iznik pottery/Bibliography

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Bibliography

Carswell, John. 1998. Iznik pottery. London, England. Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press. ^[1]
- This book has a great coverage of the basic history of Iznik pottery. It covers what is in the Islamic world and how Iznik pottery is perceived and used in the Western world.
Pancaroğlu, Oya. 2007. Perpetual glory: medieval Islamic ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection / Oya Pancaroğlu; with transcriptions and translations of inscriptions by Manijeh. Chicago, Illinois.: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2007 Edition 1st ed ^[2]
- This piece covers the history of an exhibition of Islamic pottery at the Chicago Institute of Art. While Iznik pottery is not the focus it still gives a good background to the ceramics as a whole.
Ettingshausen, Richard. 1972. From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic world; three modes of artistic influence. Leiden, Netherlands. Brill, 1972^[3]
- The connections between Islam and Byzantine are very important for the development of Iznik pottery. This history allows me to understand the base of Islamic art more.
Gökçe, Ezgi. 2018. Iznik Ceramics: History and Present-Day. Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts - Volume 5, Issue 2 – Pages 225-242
- This writing has the most comprehensive history of Iznik pottery I have been able to find so far. It goes very in-depth and supplies photos of everything discussed.
S. Paynter, F. Okyar, S. Wolf, M. S. Tite. 2004. Archaeometry, Volume 46, Issue 3. The production technology of Iznik pottery—a reassessment. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at Oxford University. Pages 421-427
- This journal goes more into the scientific side of Iznik pottery which gives us a new look at the differences between this and other types of ceramics. It specifically breaks down the techniques and materials used within glazing.
Panagopoulou, A., Lampakis, D., Christophilos, D., Beltsios, K., Ganetsos, Th. “TECHNOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF IZNIK CERAMICS.” Asia-Pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology, vol. 6, no. 10, 31 Oct. 2016, https://doi.org/10.14257/ajmahs.2016.10.
- This is a shorter journal that also inspects the more scientific differences in pottery. Seeing these images of the pieced broken down gives me a clever idea of how unique this style was.
Zeynep Koçel Erdem, Reyhan Şahin, 2023. Thrace through the Ages: Pottery as Evidence for Commerce and Culture from Prehistoric Times to the Islamic Period. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
- This book goes over many different types of pottery but has sections that mention Iznik pottery. The comparison between these is what makes this source unique and very helpful for further research.

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References

^ Carswell, John. 1998. Iznik pottery. London, England. Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press.
^ Pancaroğlu, Oya. 2007. Perpetual glory: medieval Islamic ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection / Oya Pancaroğlu; with transcriptions and translations of inscriptions by Manijeh. Chicago, Illinois.: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2007 Edition 1st ed
^ Ettinghausen, Richard. 1972. From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic world; three modes of artistic influence. Leiden, Netherlands. Brill, 1972

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[1] Carswell, John. 1998. Iznik pottery. London, England. Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press.

[2] Pancaroğlu, Oya. 2007. Perpetual glory: medieval Islamic ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection / Oya Pancaroğlu; with transcriptions and translations of inscriptions by Manijeh. Chicago, Illinois.: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2007 Edition 1st ed

[3] Ettinghausen, Richard. 1972. From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic world; three modes of artistic influence. Leiden, Netherlands. Brill, 1972

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