Arthur Lane

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Edward Arthur Lane (born December 15, 1909 , † March 7, 1963 ) was an English classical archaeologist and ceramic specialist.

After attending St. John's School in Leatherhead, he studied Classics at St John's College (Cambridge) . In 1932 he was on a scholarship at the British School at Athens and based on the work of its then director Humfry Payne , he wrote a fundamental work on laconic vase painting . From 1934 he worked in the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, from 1950 to 1963 he was head of this department. In 1937 he took part in Leonard Woolley's excavation in Al Mina , where his interest in Islamic ceramics was aroused. In this area he wrote his most important works, but also wrote about numerous other areas of ceramics.

Publications (selection)

  • Lakonian Vase Painting . In: The Annual of the British School at Athens . Volume 34, 1933/34, pp. 99-189.
  • A Guide to the Collection of Tiles . London 1939
  • Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia . London 1947
  • French faïence . London 1946
  • Greek Pottery . London 1948
  • Style in pottery . London 1948
  • Italian porcelain . London 1954
  • Later Islamic Pottery: Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey . London 1957
2nd ed. 1971 by Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson, Faber & Faber, London. ISBN 0-571-04736-X
  • English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century . London 1961

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personal data
SURNAME Lane, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English ceramic specialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1909
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1963