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Professor John Carswell, for 10 years curator of the Oriental Institute Museum and director of the University of Chicago's Museum of Fine Arts, has been appointed director of the department of Islamic Works of Arts at Sotheby's in London. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Carswell spent a quarter of a century working in the Middle East where he served as department chairman and professor of Fine Arts at the American University of Beirut. The author of numerous works, including The Kutahya Tiles and Pottery in the Armenian Cathedral at St. James, Jerusalem and New Julfa: The Armenian Churches and Other Buildings, he is currently preparing a monograph on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and a catalog on the Benaki Museum's Ottoman ceramics. 83 Rug Notes
Carswell, John, Contributing Editors, Hali The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art.
Carswell, John. "BOOKS". Hali 97, 1998. page 98. "Secrets of the Harem, by Carla Coco, reviewed by John Carswell."
Carswell, John. "Six Tiles." In Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of art, ed. Richard Ettinghausen. New York, I 976. Pp. 99- 1 24.
Carswell, John. Blue and White.- Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, 1985.
Bosch, Gulnar, John Carswell, and Guy Petherbridge. Islamic Bindings and Bookmaking. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, 1981.
Carswell, John. "Syrian Tiles from Sinai and Damascus" in Archaeology in the Levant: Essays for Kathleen Kenyon. Moorey, Roger (edited by). Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1978. 269-296.
Carswell, John, Isnik Pottery, (London: 1998).
Carswell, John, "The Feast of the Gods: The Porcelain trade between China, Istanbul and Venice," in Asian Affairs 24/2 (June 1993), 180-6.
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