LA CERAMIQUE DANS L'ART MUSULMAN

First Edition. Hardback. Slipcase. Catalogue dimensions:490mm H x 410mm. La ceramique dans l'Art Musulman:'Recueil de 100 planches en couleurs. Reproduisant les plus belles pièces originales choisies dans les Musées et les Collections privees françaises et étrangères. Publié sous la Direction de Henri Rivière. Avec une préface de Gaston Migeon, Conservateur du Département des Objets d'Art du Moyen-Age, de la Renaissance et des Temps Moderne, au Musée du Louvre.' 200 copies only. Two volumes, in French: a total of one hundred plates; each plate paired with a text-page giving a description and dimensions of the object. 10 plates (figures) in text, one unnumbered. Publishers printed fliers (publicity materials) loosely inserted. Preface by Gaston Migeon. Introduction by Henri Rivière. Original publisher's linen binding printed with Islamic geometric design and figurative border in soft ochres and earth tones, with turquoise blue lettering, reflecting the colours of many of the ceramics. The boards contain loose pages, with original plain tape ribbon ties to close the boards, in the style of an artist's folio. Ties complete and in good shape. Gustave Achille Gaston Migeon (1861– 1930) was Curator of the Department of Middle Age, Renaissance, and Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Louvre, Paris. The Louvre's Department of Islamic Art: "the youngest of the museum’s eight departments, was created in 2003. Its origins can be traced back to the Islamic section created in 1890 within the Department of Decorative Arts by two curators: Gaston Migeon and Emile Molinier. The new galleries of the Department of Islamic Art opened to the public in 2012. Some 3,000 objects are on display, spanning 1,300 years of history and three continents, from Spain to Southeast Asia. Henri Rivière (1864–1951) was a French artist and designer best known for his creation of a form of shadow play at the Chat Noir cabaret, and for his post-Impressionist illustrations of Breton landscapes and the Eiffel Tower. Émile Lévy (1826 –1890) was a French genre and portrait painter. One leaf slightly wrinkled. Slight foxing at text prelims of the first volume. Spines of folders slightly faded but very clean. Bright clean very good indeed - an excellent set in original sound clean very good attractive patterned slip-cases. …