Leilão Bidspirit | [Scientific catalog] Monuments of Byzantine

[Scientific catalog] Monuments of Byzantine applied art. Byzantine ceramics of IX-XV centuries / Zalesskaya V.N. - St. Petersburg: The Hermitage Press, 2011.  256 p., ill. 22.5x27.5 cm.  Illustrated publisher's binding. Excellent preservation.  The scientific catalogue includes about 500 specimens of Byzantine pottery dating from the 9th-15th centuries. They vary in type, form, subject matter, nature of decoration and technical methods of applied decoration. The catalogue has three sections. The basis for division is based on the colour of the clay in the break and the presence or absence of watering. In each of the sections of the materials are arranged in chronological order. The catalogue descriptions contain information about the place where the monument was found and the alleged workshop, size is given, the method of decorating the product is described, the exhibitions, where the object was exhibited, and literary sources, which have information about it, are listed. The catalogue closes geographical index, which includes places of production, places of finds and purchases, as well as an index of institutions and persons who owned monuments. The catalogue is intended for specialists - historians, archaeologists, art historians, as well as for all interested in historical science. Russian edition.