Ceramics from Islamic Lands Available to Purchase

This weighty tome, (and I write feelingly as the volume is certainly well endowed with avoirdupois!) must surely be one of the most important and valuable contributions to the subject of Islamic ceramics. Dr Oliver Watson, its author, was chief curator of ceramics and glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum London, but is now the chief curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Dohar, Qatar. His book is basically a catalogue of the al‐Sabah collection in the Kuwait National Museum, a private collection formed by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al‐Ahmed al‐Sabah. Dr Watson is the first to point out...