Mercantile Effect

Melanie Gibson is the senior editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

• Foreword by Melanie GibsonIntroduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate WorldSuet May Lam – Fantasies of the East: ‘Shopping’ in Early Modern EurasiaAmy S. Landau – The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of ‘Life-Likeness’William Kynan-Wilson – ‘Painted by the Turcks themselves’: Reading Peter Mundy’s Ottoman Costume Album in ContextNicole Kançal-Ferrari – Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans’ Court and the Northern Black Sea ShoreNancy Um – Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century MochaFederica Gigante – Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi MuseumAnna Ballian – From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of ChiosChristos Merantzas – Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland GreeceFrancesco Gusella – Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West IndiaGül Kale – Visual and Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle EastContributors

"This elegant volume edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson is a pioneer effort. . . superbly illustrated and kaleidoscopically examined."--Newsletter of the Oriental Ceramic Society