Figure 1
Interior view of Museum 1 built by Mario Botta, Leeum, Seoul. Photograph: courtesy of Pascale Vialleton-Touzan.
Figure 2
Gallery of Korean celadons, Museum 1, Leeum. Photographs in the public domain.
Figure 3
Gallery of Korean celadons, Museum 1, Leeum. Photographs in the public domain.
Figure 4
Islamic art gallery, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Photographs in the public domain.
Figure 5
Islamic art gallery, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Photographs in the public domain.
Figure 6
Islamic art gallery, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Photographs in the public domain.
Figure 7
Bowl, Nishapur, Eastern Iran, 10th century. Earthenware, black slip on a white slip ground. H. 7 in. (17.8 cm) Diam. 18 in. (45.7 cm). Museum number: 65.106.2. Roger Fund 1965. © 2000–2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Figure 8
Bottle, Korea, 1100–1150. Stoneware, thrown, with incised decoration under celadon glaze. Museum number: C.529-1918. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2016.
Figure 9
View of the exhibition ‘The Lost Dhow’, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 10
Interior view of the Capital Museum, Beijing. Photograph Valerie Gonzalez.
Figure 11
Interior view of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 12
View of the upper level of the gallery of ‘Islamic arts’, Cour Visconti, Louvre, Paris. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 13
Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, ‘Orchid and Hand’, 1983. ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d’Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008. Copyright: ©Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Photograph: Antonia Reeve; celadon fish-dragon ewer, 12th century, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea, National Museum of Korea, Seoul. Accession number: Gaeseong-000002-00000. Copyright©National Museum of Korea. Photomontage by Valerie Gonzalez.
Figure 14
View of the exhibition of Tunisian ceramics, Bardo Palace, Tunis. Photograph: Issam Barhoumi. Courtesy of Ridha Moumni and Issam Barhoumi.
Figure 15
Gallery of Korean painting, with an Alberto Giacometti sculpture and a Mark Rothko painting, Museum 1, Leeum. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 16
Gallery of Korean celadons, Museum 1, Leeum, Seoul. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 17
View of the exhibition ‘Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko’, Sackler/Freer Gallery, Washington DC, September-February, 2016–17. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 18
Interior view of the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Photograph in the public domain.
Figure 19
A room in the gallery of ‘The Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photograph in the public domain.