MATERIALS

Materials

Ceramics

Ceramics

Within the field of ceramics, China was the great source of inspiration for the Middle East. Although Muslim potters never managed to make coveted porcelain, they did invent tin-glazed earthenware: faience. They further developed fritware, introduced lusterware and underglaze painting, and mastered many other decoration techniques.

In 13th-century Iran, there were so many different types of ceramics that no comparable variation was found until the 19th century, in Europe.

Although ceramics can break, it does not decompose and cannot be recycled, so this is the group of works of art from the Islamic world that is best preserved.

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ISLAMIC ART: CERAMICS

Islamic Art: Ceramics

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Earthenware storage jar with a turquoise glaze
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Earthenware cup with molded or stamped decoration and a yellow and green glaze
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Earthenware dish with molded decoration covered by a yellow and green glaze
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Earthenware bowl, painted in blue in an opaque, white glaze
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Earthenware bowl, painted in luster over an opaque, white glaze
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Earthenware dish, decorated with green and manganese
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Earthenware albarello, painted in blue in, and with two tones of luster over, an opaque, white glaze
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Earthenware bowl, covered with a white slip and painted in manganese, yellow, and green under and in a transparent glaze
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Earthenware bowl, painted in luster over a white glaze
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Earthenware bowl, covered with a white slip and painted in black, yellow, and green under a transparent glaze
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Earthenware bowl, covered by a white slip with incised ornamentation and decorated with splashes of color in a transparent glaze
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Earthenware bowl, covered with a white slip and painted in a brown and red slip under a transparent glaze
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Earthenware bowl, covered with a brown slip and painted in a white slip under a transparent glaze that is now decomposed
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Earthenware bowl, decorated with colored slips over an aubergine-colored ground under a transparent glaze
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Earthenware dish, covered with a white slip and painted in red and in an olive-green slip under a yellowish glaze
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Earthenware bowl, with carved decoration in a white slip under a green glaze. Garrus type
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Fritware jug, with molded and openwork decoration and with splashes of blue under a transparent glaze
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Fritware dish, painted in luster over an opaque, white glaze
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Fritware bowl, with polychrome decoration and gold leaf in and over an opaque, white glaze. Minai type
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Fritware bowl, painted in luster over a white glaze
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Fritware bowl, painted in black and blue under a transparent glaze
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Fritware dish, painted in luster over an opaque, white glaze
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Fritware mihrab tile, cast in two parts and painted in blue and turquoise in, and in luster over, an opaque, white glaze
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Fritware tile, molded and painted in red and with gold leaf over a blue glaze. Lajvardina type
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Fritware dish, painted with a white and gray slip and in blue and black under a transparent glaze. Sultanabad type
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