Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum

John Carswell, Mina Moraitou, Melanie Gibson

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Gingko Library
11 August 2023

Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Series: Gingko Library Art Series

The first publication to feature the full collection of Iznik ceramics at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

The Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in Athens has a substantial collection of Iznik ceramics, intricate works created in the city of Iznik in Asia Minor that are decorated with vibrant colors and designs. Although well known to many who visit the museum, this collection—which includes tableware, tiles, and sherds—has never before been published in its entirety.

Archaeologist, scholar, and curator John Carswell first began studying and cataloging these objects in the 1980s. This project has since been revived and guided to fruition by the curator of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Mina Moraitou, who has also contributed a chapter on the Museum’s founder Antonis Benakis and the formation of its Iznik collection. The catalog brings together these admired and sought-after ceramics, featuring over three hundred illustrations of pieces from the Museum’s collection.

By: John Carswell, Mina Moraitou
Contributions by: Melanie Gibson
Imprint: Gingko Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 292mm, Width: 241mm,
ISBN: 9781914983047
ISBN 10: 1914983041
Series: Gingko Library Art Series
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 11 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Carswell graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 1951, and subsequently worked as an archaeological draughtsman at Jericho and throughout the Near East, before joining the American University of Beirut (1956-76), where he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts. He was Visiting Professor at SOAS, London University from 1957–58; Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum and Director of the Smart Museum, University of Chicago, 1978-88; Vice President and Chairman of the Islamic Department, Sotheby’s, London 1988–98. He is now an independent scholar living in Spain; Mina Moraitou completed her studies at SOAS, University of London where she received a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art in 1992 and an MA in the History of Islamic Art in 1996. Since 1992, she has been working at the Benaki Museum: she contributed to the creation of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in July 2004 and became curator in 2012. She has coordinated and curated several exhibitions: Thomas Hope: Drawings of Ottoman Istanbul (Athens, 2016, Sharjah 2017); Iznik- a Fascination with Ceramics (2017); Islamic Calligraphy: The Art of Iranian Writing (2018) and Roads of Arabia (2019); Melanie Gibson is senior editor of the Gingko Library Art Series.