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Contents 5 Contributors 9 Introduction 15 1. The principle of parsimony and the problem of the ‘Mosul School of metalwork’ 25 PART 1 - Metalwork from the iranian world 101 2. metalwork and fourteenth-century persian painting: a Footnote 103 3. the die-engraver of balkh (290/902-302/914) 113 4. the ugly duckling of iranian metalwork? initial remarks on qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the national museums of scotland 129 PART 2 - Iran and india 143 5. Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy: A case of fraud in medieval Kashmir 145 6. A tubular bronze object from khurasan 157 7. Persians abroad: the case of the jami ‘ Masj id of Gulbarga 169 PART 3 - Mamluk metalwork in focus 183 8. An extraordinary mamluk casket in the fitzwilliam museum 185 9. A mamluk tray and its journey to the v&A 201 10. arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint: a mamluk basin in the rijksmuseum, amsterdam 215 PART 4 - Egypt and Syria: artefact and text 229 11. A bronze tambourine player 231 12. The fatimid bronze hoard of tiberias 237 13. A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in caesarea 253 14. Islamic embroideries from egypt: shifts in taste, change in status 267 15. Metalwork

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Porter, Venetia; Rosser-Owen, Mariam ;

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