2008 PRIZE WINNERS

First Prize
Martha H Henze (81)
for an inventory of early Anatolian kilims surviving in Ethiopian Orthodox Churches.

The Godfrey Goodwin Prize
Mr Charles Moore (23)
to visit Kyrgystan marking the launch of the Prize in 2008

PREVIOUS ENTRIES
Applications

2000

Winner: Cyril Beecher (England), Field Study of Fourteenth-Century Underglaze Decorated- Ceramics in Yunnan, South China. After a highly successful trip to Yunnan, he lectured on the results to the Oriental Ceramic Society in London, who published his research in the Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society in 2004

Helen Espir, 69 (England), Documentation for a Chinese Blue-and-White Bowl Overdecorated in Holland in 1742

Irene Finch, 82 (England) Eighteenth-Century Japanese shonsui Ware Imported to England

Brenda Hall, 62 (England) Nineteenth-Century Tapestries: A Guide for Needleworkers

Vasileios Marinis, 24 (Greece), Architecture and Liturgial Planning in Byzantine Constantinople

Tadeuz Majda, 70 (Poland) Catalogue of the Turkish Wall Hangings in Polish Museums

Sonya May, 24 (Austria), Indian Art: The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity

Nicholas H. Wright, 62 (US) Defining the Fade Curve of Naturally Dyed Wool for Use in the Repair and Restoration of Oriental Rugs

2001

Wen-shing Lucia Chou (US), History and Architecture of the Palazzina Cinese in Palermo, Built by Ferdinand of Naples in 1799

Jean Clift-Hill, 71 (England), Chronicle of the English High School for Girls in Instanbul

Winner: Emma Dick, 24 (England), An Analysis of the Sûrname-i Hümayun and Comparison with the Sûrname-i Vehbi in the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul

Rosemary Patmore Kemble, 60 (England) Documentation on the History and Provenance of a Country House Carpet

Xavier F. Salomon, 22 (Italy), Italian Portraits of Mehmet II

Sel Erder Yackley, 62 (Turkey, US), Research at the Tell Kurdu Excavation Site in Southern Turkey

Craig Yawe (England), Documentation on Nanticoke Blankets

Josh Yiu, 23 (Hong Kong), Archic Vessels on the Altar

2002

Helen Espir, 69 (England), Oriental Porcelain Overdecorated in Europe, 1690-1830

Irene Finch, 84 (England) Chronology of Japanese Nabeshima Ceramics

Selin Ipek, 25 (Turkey), Religious Fabrics in the Topkapi Palace Museum Collection Sent to Mecca and Medina

Winner: Karl Sabbagh, 62 (England), The First King of Palestine
For research about the concept of Palestine from early times to the present. His special focus was on Sheik Daher el-Omar, the de facto ruler in the mid-18th century over an area of the Ottoman Empire that covered northern Palestine and southern Syria. The Sheik was a patron of architecture and introduced a highly efficient administration, the head of which happens to be a direct relation of the prize-winner.

Xavier F. Salomon, 22 (Italy) In the Footsteps of the Apocalypse and Its Seven Churches

Elizabeth Anne Saloom, 18 (US) The Influence of TV on onternal migration in Turkey

Josh Yiu, 24 (Hong Kong) Archaic Vessels on the Altar

2005

Peter Alford Andrews, 68 (GB, Germany), Drawings for a Book about Tents

Jere L. Bacharach, 67 (US), The Beginnings of the Islamic All-Epigraphic Gold and Silver Coinage

Winner: David W. and Barbara G. Fraser, both 61 (US), The Roots of Chin Textile Culture
For research about the roots of Chin textile culture in the triangle of hills between Burma, India and Bangladesh. The research was concluded in 2006 and published in HALI 149, November-December 2006 with excellent illustrations.

Martha H. Henze, 81 (US), Finding and Recording Early Anatolian Kilims in Ethiopian Orthodox Churches andMonasteries

David James, 64 (Ireland), An English Translation of the History of Ibn al-Qutiyah

LynnAnn Meisch, 60 (US), Ancient and Modern: Coca, Culture and Cloth in the Andes

Eleanor Sims, 63 (England), Mural Decoration in a Princely House of the early Twentieth Century in Bukhara

Kendra Weisbin, 23 (US), The Export of Islamic Textiles from Turkey and Egypt to Western Europe During the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century

2008

Gayane Eliazyan, 65 (Armenia) Preparation for the digitalization of ancient damaged manuscripts. First stage: Survey of manuscripts.

Laura Valerie Esterhuizen, 67 (South Africa) Indentifying Chinese porcelains from Portuguese wrecks off the South African coast, and from this material tracing the early development of Kraak ware.

Ann Hecht, 80 (England) Visit to Japanese islands for research of textiles made from unusual fibres.

Winner: Martha H. Henze, 81 (US) Inventory of early Anatolian kilims surviving in Ethiopian Orthodox churches. Her extraordinary discovery of fragmentary 17th century Ushak carpets in the treasury of a remote monastery in Ethiopia was published with colour illustrations as the lead article in HALI, 160, July 2009

Sara Mao, 25 (England) Travel and study in UK, Europe, Taiwan to research Chinese Ru and Guan wares

Lynn Ann Meisch, 64 (US) Researching Andean maize textiles.

Winner, Godfrey Goodwin Prize: Charles Moore, 24 (England) Visit to Kyrgyzstan, mainly to photograph and take notes. Charles successfully completed the field research in Kyrgystan in July 2009 (to be published shortly)

Philip O’Reilly, 64 (England) Fundraising for further study of Turkish textiles, especially felt.

Thomas Reimer, 66 (Germany) Establishing a family tree for çatma yastiks (cushion covers)

Sarah-Neel Smith, 23 (US) Visit to study architecture and function of the Istanbul Modern Art Museum