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

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.

The second volume traces the origins and development of the Kütahya pottery industry from the  fifteenth century onwards, and its relationship to the Ottoman pottery industry at Isnik. There is also a catalogue of the different types of Kütahya tiles, amongst the thousands used to decorate the Cathedral and its dependant churches in Jerusalem, during the renovations that took place between A.D. 1727-37.