8vo. Ixxxii, 291 pp., frontispiece, 48 b/w plates hors text comprising of 99 photo illustrations, contemporary cream cloth, title printed in Red on spine & upper cover, biblio, index, illustrated endpapers, minor yellowing to endpapers, otherwise copy in very good condition, printed by the order of the Trustees, The Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1936.

Synopsis

A major study covering Islamic pottery in general, and the Andalusian in particular. ‘ Twelfth and thirteen century records of the Arabs living and working at Toledo reveal that the manufacture of pottery was even then a flourishing business. Potters are referred to by name, and one, Ibn Taurino the Musluman, was described as a main, or chief of potters…. Toledo potters have appeared in wills and records of property exchanges’. Pottery was also produced in several Andalusian cities, and Islamic pottery from al-Andalus was exported in a big quantity to Italy and England. It is a known fact that the Italian pottery in later periods was influenced by the Islamic pottery of Spain.