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Recommended Asian & Islamic Art & Antique Books
Catalogue of Items for Sale
Many books on Asian and Islamic art and antiques are available. But which do we find most useful?
Here is a list of books that we value for their usefulness for building an Islamic and Asian art collection along the lines of the stock offered by Michael Backman Ltd.
Those that we find especially useful are marked with three stars (***)
Many books listed are out of print in which case, the best way to source them, is via www.abebooks.com a portal site for second hand book dealers worldwide.
Please note, we do not sell books; this list has been generated to serve as a resource for our clients.
INDIA & SRI LANKA
Aitken, M.E., When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection, Asia Society & Philip Wilson Publishers, 2004.
Archer, M. et al, Treasures from India: The Clive Collection at Powis Castle, The National Trust, 1987.
Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001.***
Aryan, K.C., Indian Folk Bronzes, Rekha Prakshan, 1991.
Aryan, S., Unknown Masterpieces of Indian Folk and Tribal Art, KC Aryan’s Home of Folk Art, 2005.
Barnard, N., Indian Jewellery, V&A Publishing, 2008.
Behrendt, K.A., The Art of Gandhara: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2007.
Chopra, S., Ganjifa: The Playing Cards of India in Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, 1999.
Coomaraswamy, A.K., Mediaeval Sinhalese Art, Pantheon Books, 1956. ***
Crill, R., & K. Jariwala, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, National Portrait Gallery, 2010.
Dehejia, V., The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India, American Federation of Arts/Mapin, 2003.
Desai, K., Jewels on the Crescent: Masterpieces of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mapin, 2002.
Dye, J.M., The Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001.***
Elgood, R., Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865, Eburon, 2004.
Ganguly, W., Earrings: Ornamental Identity and Beauty in India, B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2007.
Godrej, P.J. & F. Punthakey Mistree, A Zoroastrian Tapestry: Art, Religion & Culture, Mapin Publishing, 2002
Golden Age of Classical India: The Gupta Empire, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2007.
Guy, J., Indian Temple Sculpture, V&A Publications, 2007.
Harle, J.C. & A. Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Museum, 1987.
Jackson, A., & A. Jaffer, Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, V&A Publishing, 2009.
Jaffer, A., Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, Timeless
Books, 2001.
Jain-Neubauer, J., Feet & Footwear in Indian Culture, Bata Shoe Museum/Mapin, 2000.
Keane, M., Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals - The Al-Sabah Collection Kuwait National Museum, Thames & Hudson, 2001.***
Kelkar, D.G., Lamps of India, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India, 1961.
Lal, K., Bidri Ware: National Museum Collection, National Museum New Delhi, 1990.
Llewellyn-Jones, R. (ed.), Lucknow: City of Illusion (The Alkazi Collection of Photography), Prestel, 2006.
Museum of Modern Art (New York), Textiles and Ornaments of India, 1956.
Pal, P., A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago/Thames &
Hudson, 1997. ***
Pal, P., Art from the Indian Subcontinent: Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2003.***
Pal, P., Elephants and Ivories in South Asia, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.
Pal, P., The Arts of Kashmir, Asia Society, 2007.
Pal, P., The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Thames & Hudson/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.
Phoenix Art Museum, Guardian of the Flame: Art of Sri Lanka, 2003.
Sharma R.C. et al, Alamkara: 5000 Years of Indian Art, National Heritage Board (Singapore)/Mapin, 1994.
Stronge, S., Bidri Ware: Inlaid Metalwork from India, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1985.
Topsfield, A., Indian Paintings from Oxford Collections, University of Oxford, 1994.
Topsfield, A., (ed.), The Art of Play: Board and Card Games of India, Marg Publications, 2006.
Trivedi, S.D., Masterpieces in the State Museum, Lucknow, 1989.
Utracht, O., Traditional Jewelry of India, Thames & Hudson, 1997.***
Van Alphen, J., Steps to Liberation: 2,500 Years of Jain Art and Religion, Ethnographic Museum Antwerp, 2000.
Watt, G., Indian Art at Delhi 1903, Being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-1903, Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1903.***
Zebrowski, M., Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, Alexandria Press, 1997.***
INDIAN SILVER (MUGHAL & EXPORT)
Dehejia, V., Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Mapin, 2008.
Terlinden, C., Mughal Silver Magnificence, Antalga, 1987.***
Wilkinson, W.R.T, Indian Colonial Silver: European Silversmiths in India (1790-1860) and their Marks, Argent Press, 1973.
Wilkinson, W.R.T., Indian Silver 1858-1947, 1999.***
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Avieropoulou Choo, A., Silver: A Guide to the Collections, National Museum Singapore, 1984.***
Bennett, J., Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005.***
Bunker E.C. & D. Latchford, Adoration and Glory: The Golden Age of Khmer Art, Art Media Resources, 2004.
Chin, L., Cultural Heritage of Sarawak, Sarawak Museum, 1980.
Conway, S., Silken Threads Lacquer Thrones: Lan Na Court Textiles, River Books, 2002.
Conway, S., The Shan: Culture, Arts & Crafts, River Books, 2006.
Dumarcay J., The Palaces of Southeast Asia: Architecture and Customs, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Feldman J.A. et al, Nias Tribal Treasures: Cosmic Reflections in Stone, Wood and Gold, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, Delft, 1990.
Fraser-Lu, S., Burmese Crafts: Past and Present, Oxford University Press, 1994.***
Fraser-Lu, S., Burmese Lacquerware, White Orchid Books, 2000.
Fraser-Lu, S., Silverware of South-East Asia, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Gutman, P., Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan, Weatherhill, 2001.
Hardianti, E.S. & P. ter Keurs (eds.), Indonesia: The Discovery of the Past, KIT Publishers for De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 2005.
Henkel, D., et al, Land of the Morning: The Philippines and its People, Asian Civilisations Museum (Singapore), 2009.
Heringa, R. et al, Fabric of Enchantment: Batik from the North Coast of Java: From the Inger McCabe Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Weatherhill Inc, 1996.
Hubert, J., The Art of Champa, Parkstone International, 2005.
Ibbitson Jessup, H., Court Arts of Indonesia, The Asia Society Galleries/Harry N. Abrams, 1990.***
Isaacs, R., & T.R. Blurton, Burma and the Art of Lacquer, River Books, 2000.
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, The Message and the Monsoon: Islamic Art of Southeast Asia, IAMM Publications, 2005.***
Java und Bali: Sein in Stille unde Spiel, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1980.
Karow, O., Burmese Buddhist Sculpture: The Johan Moger Collection, White Lotus, 1991.
Kassim Haji Ali, M., Gold Jewellery and Ornaments in the Collection of Muzium Negara Malaysia, Muzium Negara Malaysia, 1988.***
Kerlogue, F., Batik: Design, Style & History, Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Khan Majlis, B. et al, Batik from the Courts of Java and Sumatra: Rudolf G. Smend Collection, Periplus, 2004.
Leigh, B., Hands of Time: The Crafts of Aceh, Penerbit Djambatan, 1989.
Lewis, P. & E., Peoples of the Golden Triangle: Six Tribes in Thailand, Thames & Hudson, 1984.
Ling Roth, H., Oriental Silverwork: Malay and Chinese, Truslove & Hanson, 1910.***
Lowry, J., Burmese Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974.***
Maxwell, R., Sari to Sarong: Five Hundred Years of Indians and Indonesian Textile Exchange, NGA, 2003.
Maxwell, R., Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation, Periplus, 2003.***
McGill, F. (ed.), Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950, Asian Art Museum, 2009.
Miksic, J., Old Javanese Gold, Ideation, 1990.
Miksic, J., Icons of Art: The Collections of the National Museum of Indonesia, BAB Publishing, 2007.
Naengnoi Punjabhan, Silverware in Thailand, Rerngrom Publishing, 1991.***
National Museum Jakarta, Treasures of the National Museum Jakarta, Buku Antar Bangsa, 1997.
Noor, F. & E. Khoo, Spirit of Wood: The Art of Malay Woodcarving, Periplus, 2003.
Pal, P., Art from Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia: Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2004.***
Peacock, B.A.V., Malaysian Traditional Crafts, Urban Council, Hong Kong Museum of History, 1981.
Richter, A., The Jewelry of Southeast Asia, Thames & Hudson, 2000.***
Rodgers, S., Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, The Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, 3rd ed. 1995.
Sibeth, A., The Batak: Peoples of Island Sumatra, Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Singh, B., Malay Brassware, National Museum of Singapore, 1985.***
Summerfield, A., & J., Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999.
The Asian Civilisations Museum A-Z Guide, Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore, 2003.
Tingley, N., Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea, Asia Society, 2009.
Tingley, N., Doris Duke: The Southeast Asian Art Collection, The Foundation for Southeast Asian Art and Culture, 2003.
Van Zonneveld, A., Traditional Weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2001.
Wassing-Visser, R., Royal Gifts from Indonesia: Historical Bonds with the House of Orange -Nassau (1600-1938), Waanders Publishers, 1995.***
ISLAMIC
Al-Jadir, S., Arab & Islamic Silver, Stacey International, 1981.
Askit, I., The Topkapi Palace, Askit, 2000.
Carboni, S., & Whitehouse, D., Glass of the Sultans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001.
Folsach, K., von, Art from the World of Islam: in the David Collection, 2001.***
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Mightier than the Sword, Arabic Script: Beauty and Meaning, IAMM Publications, 2004.***
Istanbul: The City and the Sultan, Nieuwe Kerk, 2007.
Lavin, D., The Art and Tradition of the Zuloagas: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection, The Khalili Family Trust, 1997.
Loukonine, V., & A. Ivanov, Persian Lost Treasures, Mage Publishers, 2003.
McWilliams M. & D. Roxburgh, Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice c. 1600-1900, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007.
Mohamed, B., The Arts of the Muslim Knight: The Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection, Skira, 20008.***
National Museum of Scotland, Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum/Islamic Art in a World Context, NMS, 2006.***
Piotrovsky, M., & J.M. Rogers, Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands, Prestel, 2004.
Rogers, J.M., The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007.
Roxburgh, D. (ed.), Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years 600-1600, RAA, 2005.
Spirit & Life: Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2007.
Splendeurs du Maroc, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Central, Belgium, 1998.***
Tareq Rajab Museum, Museum Guide, Kuwait, 1994.
HIMALAYAN
Beer, R., The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs, Serindia, 2004.
Casey Singer, J., Gold Jewelry from Tibet and Nepal, Thames & Hudson, 1996.***
Clarke, J., Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas, V&A Publications, 2004.***
Gabriel, H., Jewelry of Nepal, Thames & Hudson, 1999.***
Heller, A., Early Himalayan Art, Ashmolean Museum, 2008.***
LaRocca, D.J., Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006.
Lipton, B., & N.D. Ragnubs, Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, Fundacion 'la Caixa', Barcelona, 2000.
Mongolian Arts and Crafts, State Publishing House, Ulan-Bator, 1987.
Myers, D., and S. Bean (eds), From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan, Serindia, 1994.
Pal, P., Art from the Himalayas & China: Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2003.***
Pal, P., Art of Tibet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
Pal, P., Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.
Rawson, P., Sacred Tibet, Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Reynolds, V., Tibet: A Lost World: The Newark Museum Collection of Tibetan Art and Ethnology, The American Federation of Arts, 1978.
Thurman, R., & D. Weldon, Sacred Symbols: The Ritual Art of Tibet, Sotheby's/Rossi & Rossi, 1999.
Shanghai Museum, Treasures from Snow Mountains: Gems of Tibetan Cultural Relics, Shanghai Museum, 2001.
Tse Bartholomew, T., & J. Johnston (eds), The Dragons Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2008.***
CENTRAL ASIA
The Caucasian Peoples, catalogue for an exhibition of the Russian Ethnographic Museum, staged at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium, 2001.***
Kalter, J. (ed.), Uzbekistan: Heirs to the Silk Road, Thames & Hudson, 1997.
Kalter, J., The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan, Thames & Hudson, 1983.
STRAITS CHINESE
Chin, E., Gilding the Phoenix: The Straits Chinese and their Jewellery, The National Museum Singapore, 1991.***
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Beadwork & Embroidery: A Collector's Guide, Times Books International, 1987.
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Furniture: A Collector's Guide, Times Books International, 1994.
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Porcelain: A Collector's Guide, Times Books International, 1983.
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Silver: A Collector's Guide, Times International, 1984.
Kee, M.Y., Straits Chinese Porcelain, Kee Ming Yuet Sdn Bhd, 2004.
Kee, M.Y., Peranakan Porcelain: Vibrant Festive Ware of the Straits Chinese, Tuttle Publishing, 2009.***
Khoo, J.E., The Straits Chinese: A Cultural History, The Pepin Press 1996.***
Lee, P. & Chen J., Rumah Baba: Life in a Peranakan House, National Heritage Board, 1998.
Ong, P.N., Brown & Gold: Peranakan Furniture from the late 19th Century to the mid-20th Century, Ong Poh Neo, 1994.
The Southeast Asian Ceramics Society - West Malaysia Chapter, Nonya Ware and Kitchen Ch'ing, Oxford University Press, 1981.
Tan, C.B., Chinese Peranakan Heritage in Malaysia and Singapore, Penerbit Fajar Bakti, 1993.
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER
Chinese Export Silver: The Chan Collection, published in conjunction with the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 2005.
Kernan, J.D., The Chait Collection of Chinese Export Silver, Ralph M. Chait Galleries, 1985.
Forbes, H.A.C. et al, Chinese Export Silver 1785-1885, Museum of the American China Trade, 1975.
Marlowe, A.J., Chinese Export Silver, John Sparks, 1990.
BETEL PARAPHERNALIA
Brownrigg, H., Betel Cutters from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Thames & Hudson, 1992.***
Rooney, D., Betel Chewing Traditions in South-East Asia, Oxford University Press, 1993.
OTHERS
Anderson, S., Flames of Devotion: Oil Lamps from South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2006.
Cruse, J., The Comb: Its History and Development, Robert Hale Ltd, 2007.
Ethnic Jewellery: From Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands, Pepin Press, 2004.
Lee, P., Opium Culture: The Art & Ritual of the Chinese Tradition, Park Street Press, 2006.
Lerner, M., & S. Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.***
Levenson. J. (ed), Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2007.***
Martin, S., The Art of Opium Antiques, Silkworm, 2007.***
Silver Wonders from the East: Filigree of the Tsars, Lund Humphries in Association with the Hermitage Amsterdam, 2006.
Zandvliet, K. (ed.), The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600-1950, Riksmuseum Amsterdam, 2002.
TRAVEL BOOKS & LITERARY WORKS
These books, some of which are relatively obscure, provide atmospherics and context for the cultures and people from which the Gallery's objects have been
sourced. Many collectors are likely to enjoy them.
Ali, Ahmed, Twilight in Deli, New Directions, 1994. (Originally published in 1940 this novel provides an evocative account of a middle-class Mughal family during the
dying days of the Mughal era in Delhi.)
Bock, Carl, The Head-Hunters of Borneo, Oxford University Press, 1985. (First published in 1881 - an account of travels through Borneo but also Sumatra in the
nineteenth century.)
Bock, Carl, Temples and Elephants: Travels in Siam in 1881-1882, Oxford University Press, 1986. (Originally published in 1883.)
Chia, Felix, The Babas Revisited, Heinemann Asia, 1994. (Descriptions of life among the Straits Chinese in the early part of the twentieth century.)
Duras, Marguerite, The Lover, Flamingo, 1986 (The story of an affair between a French teenage girl and the son of a wealthy local Chinese businessman in Cholon
and Sa Dec, colonial Vietnam.)
Forster, Harold, Flowering Lotus: A View of Java in the 1950s, Oxford University Press, 1989. (A travel narrative set in Java during the 1950s, first published in
1958.)
Framjee, Dosabhoy, The Parsees: Their History, Manners, Customs and Religion, Asian Education Services, 2006. (A non-fiction account of Bombay's
Parsee/Zoroastrian community, first published in 1858.)
Laidler, K., The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China, Wiley, 2003. (A non-fictional account of the Dowager Empress Cixi and her household.)
Lubis, Mochtar, Indonesia: Land Under the Rainbow, Oxford University Press, 1987. (A popular history of Indonesia written by a well known Indonesian writer.)
Malouf, Amin, Samarkand, Abacas, 1992. (A fictional account of the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam.)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind, Child of all Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass, Penguin. (This quartet of historical novels by Indonesia's most
famous novelist provides an epic account of the birth of Javanese national consciousness during the period 1890-1920, through the eyes and experiences of the
central protagonist Raden Mas Minke.)
Smith, Malcolm, A Physician at the Court of Siam, Oxford University Press, 1986. (First published in 1957. An account of court life in Thailand in the 1940s.)
Yeap, Joo Kim, The Patriarch, Lee Teng Lay, 1975. (An account of life in a big Straits Chinese or baba household in Penang during the first half of the twentieth
century.)
Wilcox, Harry, Six Moons in Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, 1989. (First published in 1949 - an account of the author's six months among the Torajan people of
central Sulawesi (indonesia) during the 1940s.)
Winstedt, Keith, The Malays: A Cultural History, Routledge/Kegan Paul, 1947.
Here is a list of books that we value for their usefulness for building an Islamic and Asian art collection along the lines of the stock offered by Michael Backman Ltd.
Those that we find especially useful are marked with three stars (***)
Many books listed are out of print in which case, the best way to source them, is via www.abebooks.com a portal site for second hand book dealers worldwide.
Please note, we do not sell books; this list has been generated to serve as a resource for our clients.
INDIA & SRI LANKA
Aitken, M.E., When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection, Asia Society & Philip Wilson Publishers, 2004.
Archer, M. et al, Treasures from India: The Clive Collection at Powis Castle, The National Trust, 1987.
Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001.***
Aryan, K.C., Indian Folk Bronzes, Rekha Prakshan, 1991.
Aryan, S., Unknown Masterpieces of Indian Folk and Tribal Art, KC Aryan’s Home of Folk Art, 2005.
Barnard, N., Indian Jewellery, V&A Publishing, 2008.
Behrendt, K.A., The Art of Gandhara: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2007.
Chopra, S., Ganjifa: The Playing Cards of India in Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, 1999.
Coomaraswamy, A.K., Mediaeval Sinhalese Art, Pantheon Books, 1956. ***
Crill, R., & K. Jariwala, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, National Portrait Gallery, 2010.
Dehejia, V., The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India, American Federation of Arts/Mapin, 2003.
Desai, K., Jewels on the Crescent: Masterpieces of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mapin, 2002.
Dye, J.M., The Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001.***
Elgood, R., Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865, Eburon, 2004.
Ganguly, W., Earrings: Ornamental Identity and Beauty in India, B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2007.
Godrej, P.J. & F. Punthakey Mistree, A Zoroastrian Tapestry: Art, Religion & Culture, Mapin Publishing, 2002
Golden Age of Classical India: The Gupta Empire, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2007.
Guy, J., Indian Temple Sculpture, V&A Publications, 2007.
Harle, J.C. & A. Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Museum, 1987.
Jackson, A., & A. Jaffer, Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, V&A Publishing, 2009.
Jaffer, A., Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, Timeless
Books, 2001.
Jain-Neubauer, J., Feet & Footwear in Indian Culture, Bata Shoe Museum/Mapin, 2000.
Keane, M., Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals - The Al-Sabah Collection Kuwait National Museum, Thames & Hudson, 2001.***
Kelkar, D.G., Lamps of India, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India, 1961.
Lal, K., Bidri Ware: National Museum Collection, National Museum New Delhi, 1990.
Llewellyn-Jones, R. (ed.), Lucknow: City of Illusion (The Alkazi Collection of Photography), Prestel, 2006.
Museum of Modern Art (New York), Textiles and Ornaments of India, 1956.
Pal, P., A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago/Thames &
Hudson, 1997. ***
Pal, P., Art from the Indian Subcontinent: Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2003.***
Pal, P., Elephants and Ivories in South Asia, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.
Pal, P., The Arts of Kashmir, Asia Society, 2007.
Pal, P., The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Thames & Hudson/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.
Phoenix Art Museum, Guardian of the Flame: Art of Sri Lanka, 2003.
Sharma R.C. et al, Alamkara: 5000 Years of Indian Art, National Heritage Board (Singapore)/Mapin, 1994.
Stronge, S., Bidri Ware: Inlaid Metalwork from India, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1985.
Topsfield, A., Indian Paintings from Oxford Collections, University of Oxford, 1994.
Topsfield, A., (ed.), The Art of Play: Board and Card Games of India, Marg Publications, 2006.
Trivedi, S.D., Masterpieces in the State Museum, Lucknow, 1989.
Utracht, O., Traditional Jewelry of India, Thames & Hudson, 1997.***
Van Alphen, J., Steps to Liberation: 2,500 Years of Jain Art and Religion, Ethnographic Museum Antwerp, 2000.
Watt, G., Indian Art at Delhi 1903, Being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-1903, Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1903.***
Zebrowski, M., Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, Alexandria Press, 1997.***
INDIAN SILVER (MUGHAL & EXPORT)
Dehejia, V., Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Mapin, 2008.
Terlinden, C., Mughal Silver Magnificence, Antalga, 1987.***
Wilkinson, W.R.T, Indian Colonial Silver: European Silversmiths in India (1790-1860) and their Marks, Argent Press, 1973.
Wilkinson, W.R.T., Indian Silver 1858-1947, 1999.***
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Avieropoulou Choo, A., Silver: A Guide to the Collections, National Museum Singapore, 1984.***
Bennett, J., Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2005.***
Bunker E.C. & D. Latchford, Adoration and Glory: The Golden Age of Khmer Art, Art Media Resources, 2004.
Chin, L., Cultural Heritage of Sarawak, Sarawak Museum, 1980.
Conway, S., Silken Threads Lacquer Thrones: Lan Na Court Textiles, River Books, 2002.
Conway, S., The Shan: Culture, Arts & Crafts, River Books, 2006.
Dumarcay J., The Palaces of Southeast Asia: Architecture and Customs, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Feldman J.A. et al, Nias Tribal Treasures: Cosmic Reflections in Stone, Wood and Gold, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, Delft, 1990.
Fraser-Lu, S., Burmese Crafts: Past and Present, Oxford University Press, 1994.***
Fraser-Lu, S., Burmese Lacquerware, White Orchid Books, 2000.
Fraser-Lu, S., Silverware of South-East Asia, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Gutman, P., Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan, Weatherhill, 2001.
Hardianti, E.S. & P. ter Keurs (eds.), Indonesia: The Discovery of the Past, KIT Publishers for De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 2005.
Henkel, D., et al, Land of the Morning: The Philippines and its People, Asian Civilisations Museum (Singapore), 2009.
Heringa, R. et al, Fabric of Enchantment: Batik from the North Coast of Java: From the Inger McCabe Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Weatherhill Inc, 1996.
Hubert, J., The Art of Champa, Parkstone International, 2005.
Ibbitson Jessup, H., Court Arts of Indonesia, The Asia Society Galleries/Harry N. Abrams, 1990.***
Isaacs, R., & T.R. Blurton, Burma and the Art of Lacquer, River Books, 2000.
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, The Message and the Monsoon: Islamic Art of Southeast Asia, IAMM Publications, 2005.***
Java und Bali: Sein in Stille unde Spiel, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1980.
Karow, O., Burmese Buddhist Sculpture: The Johan Moger Collection, White Lotus, 1991.
Kassim Haji Ali, M., Gold Jewellery and Ornaments in the Collection of Muzium Negara Malaysia, Muzium Negara Malaysia, 1988.***
Kerlogue, F., Batik: Design, Style & History, Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Khan Majlis, B. et al, Batik from the Courts of Java and Sumatra: Rudolf G. Smend Collection, Periplus, 2004.
Leigh, B., Hands of Time: The Crafts of Aceh, Penerbit Djambatan, 1989.
Lewis, P. & E., Peoples of the Golden Triangle: Six Tribes in Thailand, Thames & Hudson, 1984.
Ling Roth, H., Oriental Silverwork: Malay and Chinese, Truslove & Hanson, 1910.***
Lowry, J., Burmese Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974.***
Maxwell, R., Sari to Sarong: Five Hundred Years of Indians and Indonesian Textile Exchange, NGA, 2003.
Maxwell, R., Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation, Periplus, 2003.***
McGill, F. (ed.), Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950, Asian Art Museum, 2009.
Miksic, J., Old Javanese Gold, Ideation, 1990.
Miksic, J., Icons of Art: The Collections of the National Museum of Indonesia, BAB Publishing, 2007.
Naengnoi Punjabhan, Silverware in Thailand, Rerngrom Publishing, 1991.***
National Museum Jakarta, Treasures of the National Museum Jakarta, Buku Antar Bangsa, 1997.
Noor, F. & E. Khoo, Spirit of Wood: The Art of Malay Woodcarving, Periplus, 2003.
Pal, P., Art from Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia: Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2004.***
Peacock, B.A.V., Malaysian Traditional Crafts, Urban Council, Hong Kong Museum of History, 1981.
Richter, A., The Jewelry of Southeast Asia, Thames & Hudson, 2000.***
Rodgers, S., Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, The Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, 3rd ed. 1995.
Sibeth, A., The Batak: Peoples of Island Sumatra, Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Singh, B., Malay Brassware, National Museum of Singapore, 1985.***
Summerfield, A., & J., Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999.
The Asian Civilisations Museum A-Z Guide, Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore, 2003.
Tingley, N., Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea, Asia Society, 2009.
Tingley, N., Doris Duke: The Southeast Asian Art Collection, The Foundation for Southeast Asian Art and Culture, 2003.
Van Zonneveld, A., Traditional Weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2001.
Wassing-Visser, R., Royal Gifts from Indonesia: Historical Bonds with the House of Orange -Nassau (1600-1938), Waanders Publishers, 1995.***
ISLAMIC
Al-Jadir, S., Arab & Islamic Silver, Stacey International, 1981.
Askit, I., The Topkapi Palace, Askit, 2000.
Carboni, S., & Whitehouse, D., Glass of the Sultans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001.
Folsach, K., von, Art from the World of Islam: in the David Collection, 2001.***
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Mightier than the Sword, Arabic Script: Beauty and Meaning, IAMM Publications, 2004.***
Istanbul: The City and the Sultan, Nieuwe Kerk, 2007.
Lavin, D., The Art and Tradition of the Zuloagas: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection, The Khalili Family Trust, 1997.
Loukonine, V., & A. Ivanov, Persian Lost Treasures, Mage Publishers, 2003.
McWilliams M. & D. Roxburgh, Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice c. 1600-1900, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007.
Mohamed, B., The Arts of the Muslim Knight: The Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection, Skira, 20008.***
National Museum of Scotland, Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum/Islamic Art in a World Context, NMS, 2006.***
Piotrovsky, M., & J.M. Rogers, Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands, Prestel, 2004.
Rogers, J.M., The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007.
Roxburgh, D. (ed.), Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years 600-1600, RAA, 2005.
Spirit & Life: Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2007.
Splendeurs du Maroc, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Central, Belgium, 1998.***
Tareq Rajab Museum, Museum Guide, Kuwait, 1994.
HIMALAYAN
Beer, R., The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs, Serindia, 2004.
Casey Singer, J., Gold Jewelry from Tibet and Nepal, Thames & Hudson, 1996.***
Clarke, J., Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas, V&A Publications, 2004.***
Gabriel, H., Jewelry of Nepal, Thames & Hudson, 1999.***
Heller, A., Early Himalayan Art, Ashmolean Museum, 2008.***
LaRocca, D.J., Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006.
Lipton, B., & N.D. Ragnubs, Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, Fundacion 'la Caixa', Barcelona, 2000.
Mongolian Arts and Crafts, State Publishing House, Ulan-Bator, 1987.
Myers, D., and S. Bean (eds), From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan, Serindia, 1994.
Pal, P., Art from the Himalayas & China: Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2003.***
Pal, P., Art of Tibet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
Pal, P., Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.
Rawson, P., Sacred Tibet, Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Reynolds, V., Tibet: A Lost World: The Newark Museum Collection of Tibetan Art and Ethnology, The American Federation of Arts, 1978.
Thurman, R., & D. Weldon, Sacred Symbols: The Ritual Art of Tibet, Sotheby's/Rossi & Rossi, 1999.
Shanghai Museum, Treasures from Snow Mountains: Gems of Tibetan Cultural Relics, Shanghai Museum, 2001.
Tse Bartholomew, T., & J. Johnston (eds), The Dragons Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2008.***
CENTRAL ASIA
The Caucasian Peoples, catalogue for an exhibition of the Russian Ethnographic Museum, staged at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium, 2001.***
Kalter, J. (ed.), Uzbekistan: Heirs to the Silk Road, Thames & Hudson, 1997.
Kalter, J., The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan, Thames & Hudson, 1983.
STRAITS CHINESE
Chin, E., Gilding the Phoenix: The Straits Chinese and their Jewellery, The National Museum Singapore, 1991.***
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Beadwork & Embroidery: A Collector's Guide, Times Books International, 1987.
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Furniture: A Collector's Guide, Times Books International, 1994.
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Porcelain: A Collector's Guide, Times Books International, 1983.
Ho, W.M., Straits Chinese Silver: A Collector's Guide, Times International, 1984.
Kee, M.Y., Straits Chinese Porcelain, Kee Ming Yuet Sdn Bhd, 2004.
Kee, M.Y., Peranakan Porcelain: Vibrant Festive Ware of the Straits Chinese, Tuttle Publishing, 2009.***
Khoo, J.E., The Straits Chinese: A Cultural History, The Pepin Press 1996.***
Lee, P. & Chen J., Rumah Baba: Life in a Peranakan House, National Heritage Board, 1998.
Ong, P.N., Brown & Gold: Peranakan Furniture from the late 19th Century to the mid-20th Century, Ong Poh Neo, 1994.
The Southeast Asian Ceramics Society - West Malaysia Chapter, Nonya Ware and Kitchen Ch'ing, Oxford University Press, 1981.
Tan, C.B., Chinese Peranakan Heritage in Malaysia and Singapore, Penerbit Fajar Bakti, 1993.
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER
Chinese Export Silver: The Chan Collection, published in conjunction with the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 2005.
Kernan, J.D., The Chait Collection of Chinese Export Silver, Ralph M. Chait Galleries, 1985.
Forbes, H.A.C. et al, Chinese Export Silver 1785-1885, Museum of the American China Trade, 1975.
Marlowe, A.J., Chinese Export Silver, John Sparks, 1990.
BETEL PARAPHERNALIA
Brownrigg, H., Betel Cutters from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Thames & Hudson, 1992.***
Rooney, D., Betel Chewing Traditions in South-East Asia, Oxford University Press, 1993.
OTHERS
Anderson, S., Flames of Devotion: Oil Lamps from South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2006.
Cruse, J., The Comb: Its History and Development, Robert Hale Ltd, 2007.
Ethnic Jewellery: From Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands, Pepin Press, 2004.
Lee, P., Opium Culture: The Art & Ritual of the Chinese Tradition, Park Street Press, 2006.
Lerner, M., & S. Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.***
Levenson. J. (ed), Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2007.***
Martin, S., The Art of Opium Antiques, Silkworm, 2007.***
Silver Wonders from the East: Filigree of the Tsars, Lund Humphries in Association with the Hermitage Amsterdam, 2006.
Zandvliet, K. (ed.), The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600-1950, Riksmuseum Amsterdam, 2002.
TRAVEL BOOKS & LITERARY WORKS
These books, some of which are relatively obscure, provide atmospherics and context for the cultures and people from which the Gallery's objects have been
sourced. Many collectors are likely to enjoy them.
Ali, Ahmed, Twilight in Deli, New Directions, 1994. (Originally published in 1940 this novel provides an evocative account of a middle-class Mughal family during the
dying days of the Mughal era in Delhi.)
Bock, Carl, The Head-Hunters of Borneo, Oxford University Press, 1985. (First published in 1881 - an account of travels through Borneo but also Sumatra in the
nineteenth century.)
Bock, Carl, Temples and Elephants: Travels in Siam in 1881-1882, Oxford University Press, 1986. (Originally published in 1883.)
Chia, Felix, The Babas Revisited, Heinemann Asia, 1994. (Descriptions of life among the Straits Chinese in the early part of the twentieth century.)
Duras, Marguerite, The Lover, Flamingo, 1986 (The story of an affair between a French teenage girl and the son of a wealthy local Chinese businessman in Cholon
and Sa Dec, colonial Vietnam.)
Forster, Harold, Flowering Lotus: A View of Java in the 1950s, Oxford University Press, 1989. (A travel narrative set in Java during the 1950s, first published in
1958.)
Framjee, Dosabhoy, The Parsees: Their History, Manners, Customs and Religion, Asian Education Services, 2006. (A non-fiction account of Bombay's
Parsee/Zoroastrian community, first published in 1858.)
Laidler, K., The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China, Wiley, 2003. (A non-fictional account of the Dowager Empress Cixi and her household.)
Lubis, Mochtar, Indonesia: Land Under the Rainbow, Oxford University Press, 1987. (A popular history of Indonesia written by a well known Indonesian writer.)
Malouf, Amin, Samarkand, Abacas, 1992. (A fictional account of the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam.)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind, Child of all Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass, Penguin. (This quartet of historical novels by Indonesia's most
famous novelist provides an epic account of the birth of Javanese national consciousness during the period 1890-1920, through the eyes and experiences of the
central protagonist Raden Mas Minke.)
Smith, Malcolm, A Physician at the Court of Siam, Oxford University Press, 1986. (First published in 1957. An account of court life in Thailand in the 1940s.)
Yeap, Joo Kim, The Patriarch, Lee Teng Lay, 1975. (An account of life in a big Straits Chinese or baba household in Penang during the first half of the twentieth
century.)
Wilcox, Harry, Six Moons in Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, 1989. (First published in 1949 - an account of the author's six months among the Torajan people of
central Sulawesi (indonesia) during the 1940s.)
Winstedt, Keith, The Malays: A Cultural History, Routledge/Kegan Paul, 1947.
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