Kütahya tiles and pottery from the Armenian cathedral of St. James, Jerusalem. Volume I

In A.D. 1718/19, Armenian potters in Kütahya in north-western Turkey made a series of pictorial tiles for the restauration of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Never used for their original purpose, the majority were instead set in the walls of the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem. Painted with Biblical subjects, the original sequence has now been reconstructed, on the basis of an Armenian chronicle written on the lower margins. The chronicle itself contains interesting details concerning the spiritual and temporal fortunes of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem in the early eighteenth century.

In the first volume, bowls and dishes similarly decorated, and part of the same donation, are also described, and there is a detailed catalogue of all inscribed and dated Kütahya pottery throughout the world.