A Mamluk Basin for a Sicilian Queen

Jan de Hond is a curator in the Rijksmuseum’s history department, specializing in the cultural history of the nineteenth century and relations between the Netherlands and the non-western world. He obtained his doctorate in 2008 with the dissertation Verlangen naar het Oosten. Orientalisme in de Nederlandse cultuur ca. 1800-1920. De Hond is the curator of the exhibition Trade Goods and Souvenirs - Islamic Art from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (20 April -4 September 2011).

Luitgard Mols is an Arabist and art historian in the field of Islamic art. She obtained her doctorate in 2006 with her dissertation on Mamluk Metalwork Fittings in their Artistic and Architectural Context. Through Sabiel, her research bureau, she works as a guest curator, researcher and lecturer for museums, universities and cultural institutions.