Slides used to illustrate 'Early Persian Tilework'

Scope and Content

35mm colour slides of tilework and architectural details at mosques, madrasas and other sites in Iran, used to illustrate Pickett's book, 'Early Persian Tilework: the Medieval Flowering of Kashi' (1997). The slides are numbered 1-143 (some numbers are missing), with the numbers relating to the numbers of the illustrations used in the book. Sites covered include: Qala'-yi Bust; Sangan-i Bala; Malik-i Zauzan Mosque; Friday Mosque Minaret, Damghan; Imam Husain Mosque, Ardistan; Ghurid Portal, Friday Mosque, Herat; Minaret of Friday Mosque, Nigar; Gunbad-i Kabud, Maragha; Mihrab of Friday Mosque, Gaz; Gunbad-i Surkh, Maragha; Zain al-Din Minaret, Kashan; Minaret of Jam, Firuzkuh; Friday Mosque, Sangan-i Pain; Friday Mosque, Farumad; Pir-i Bakran; Imamzada Ja'far, Damghan; Bastam complex; Uljaitu's Mausoleum, Sultaniyya; Natanz complex, Khanqah; Friday Mosque, Ushturjan; Tomb tower of 'Ala al-Din, Varamin; Tomb tower of Sultan Haidar, Khiav; Old Mosque, Turbat-i Shaikh Jam; Imamiyya Madrasa; Baba Qasim Mausoleum; Ghaffariya Mausoleum, Maragha; Mil-i Ahangan; Darjazin Tomb Tower, Imamzada Hud; Tuisirkan Tomb Tower; Nizamiyya portal, Abarqu; Sultan Bakht Agha complex; Bagh-i Qush Khana minaret; Madrasa of Shihab al-Din Qasim Taraz; Friday Mosque, Yazd; Madrasa in Friday Mosque, Isfahan; Friday Mosque, Kirman; Pa Minar Mosque, Kirman

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Conditions Governing Use

Copyright held by Estate of Douglas Pickett in most cases. Some images appear to have been supplied to Pickett by collegues; where this is the case, the source of the image is indicated in 'Early Persian Tilework'

Related Material

A copy of 'Early Persian Tilework: The Medieval Flowering of Kashi' has been transferred to SOAS: see MS380812/1/2.