As I recover from #COVID19 I remember the strength of my ancestors, esp my grandfather #DavidOhannessian, who mastered ceramic art in Ottoman Kutahya in the years before WW1, survived exile during the #ArmenianGenocide & founded the art of #Armenianceramics in Jerusalem in 1919 
I tell his story in a book #FeastofAshes & share here a sample of his art, which changed the face of Jerusalem, where he carried over the Ottoman Kutahya ceramics tradition. This art continues to flourish today in the studios of several Armenian families. a.co/d/5sJrGkp
One of #DavidOhannessian’s most characteristic works in Jerusalem, the tiled triptych made for St John’s Ophthalmic Hospital in the 1920s, when it was renovated by #architect Austen St Barbe Harrison #Armenianceramics
#DavidOhannessian #Armenian Jerusalem #pottery #ceramics c.1930s private collection #FeastofAshes #Armeniantakeover #culture #beauty a.co/d/5sJrGkp @stanfordpress #Armenianceramics
#DavidOhannessian #ceramics detail of entryway British and Foreign Bible Society, Municipal Plaza, Jerusalem #FeastofAshes #ArmenianTakeOver #culture #beauty a.co/d/5sJrGkp @stanfordpress #Armenianceramics
#DavidOhannessian tiled bench and fountain St Andrew’s Scottish Church, Jerusalem #Armenian #ceramics #FeastofAshes @stanfordpress #Armenianceramics
#DavidOhannessian #Armenianceramics American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem Ohannessian ceramics from 1923 #FeastofAshes author Sato Moughalian seated before her grandfather’s tile panel @stanfordpress a.co/d/5sJrGkp
Pair of #DavidOhannessian tables + details, late 1930s, Lobby, Jerusalem Y #Armenianceramics #FeastofAshes @stanfordpress
More #architectural #tile details by #DavidOhannessian founder of the #Armenianceramics school of Jerusalem #FeastofAshes @stanfordpress
Archival photos from #DavidOhannessian’s studio on the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, called Dome of the Rock Tiles, 1930s #Armenianceramics #FeastofAshes @stanfordpress a.co/d/5sJrGkp
Photos of the artists+apprentices (often orphans of the #ArmenianGenocide) at work creating #Armenianceramics in post-WW1 Jerusalem in #DavidOhannessian’s Dome of the Rock Tiles studio (h/t Library of Congress Photo Collection & Near East Relief Historical Society) #FeastofAshes
#DavidOhannessian’s masterpiece in Jerusalem, the cuerda seca tiled fountain niche made for the Palestine Archaeological Museum (now the Rockefeller Museum) 1933-34. Photos by Orhan Kolukisa #Armenianceramics #FeastofAshes #Armenianart
#FeastofAshes is the story of #DavidOhannessian, an artist who lived to create beauty, whose passionate marriage sustained him through deportation, hunger, and near death, only to replant himself & his family in Jerusalem where the art he founded in 1919 lives on today
When visiting Jerusalem, don’t miss the #Armenianceramics studios of the Karakashian, Balian, Lepejian, Antreassian, and Sandrouni families, all of whom continue to create exquisite art today and all of whose works can be found online. #ArmenianTakeOver #Armenianart h/t @ReemK10
