Princes, Dervishes and Dragons: The Tile Arcade from Safavid Isfahan (C. 1685-95)

by Associate Professor Robert B Mason and Lisa Golombek

Toward the end of the nineteenth century much of Iran's architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the seventeenth-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. Local dealers salvaged a series of astonishingly beautiful pictorial arch-shaped panels composed of cuerda seca tiles from one of these. Beginning in 1911 whole panels and many single tiles were sold through Hagop Kevorkian. The authors have assembled (digitally)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399538691
• ISBN13: 9781399538695
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages