The Khalili Collection contains some 2,000 items of pottery, representinga millennium of ceramic production across the Islamic world. The catalogue ofthese holdings is to be published in two volumes. This first volumeconcentrates on the beauty of the work of the early Muslim potters, of which theCollection holds some of the most attractive and interesting examples known.Among these are several unparalleled masterpieces, and the Collection isparticularly rich in Saljuq lustrewares of the 12th and 13th centuries AD, andin the pottery of the Timurid period. Full colour illustrations of all majortypes of early Islamic pottery have never been published together in a singlevolume: here they are presented with brief introductory essays on each category,and detailed discussions of individual objects.