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Georges Marçais

جورج مارسيه

French orientalist who studied Islamic art and ceramics in Algeria and published the series Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane, including Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (1916) 1.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe

Life in time

18251850187519001925195019752000 c.
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abadi Bano Begum · Abbas Hilmi II · Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad · Abd al-Hafid of Morocco

Arts of the bookEngineering and technology

Summary

Georges Marçais wrote Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Constantine 1916), part III of his series Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane. 1 In it he refers to his earlier study of the pottery and faience of the Qal'a of the Banu Hammad and to his book Les Arabes en Berbérie. 2 3 4

Method

  • He contrasts Bougie with the Qal'a of the Banu Hammad: the Qal'a's pottery is securely dated because the town was born, grew and lost its importance in less than a century and never rose again, whereas Bougie was a port held by many masters and always in contact with the Mediterranean, so its fragments come from varied origins. 5 3
  • He therefore does not apply his Qal'a method but studies each group separately by form, technique and decoration, compares it with foreign ceramics, and presents his hypotheses as hypotheses. 3
  • He calls for methodical excavations in the town. 5

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Authored
Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Georges Marçais, 1916)

People and things also explored

Islamic lustreware· Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Georges Marçais, 1916)· Béjaïa· al-Qal'a (Qal'at Bani Hammad)· Hammadid dynasty· Abbasid tin-glazed ware· Fritware (stonepaste)· Inlaid metalwork

Sources

  1. Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 1
  2. Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 6
  3. Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 10
  4. Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 30
  5. Georges Marçais, Les poteries et faïences de Bougie (Collection Debruge), Contribution à l'étude de la céramique musulmane III, Constantine: D. Braham, 1916 , p. 9
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Islamic lustreware

Metallic-sheened pottery developed in Iraq and Fatimid Egypt, then travelling to Persia and Islamic Spain; among the most prized Islamic ceramics.