المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1180
مكان النشر
Iran (made) -
الموضوع
Islam
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Diameter: 13cm, Height: 18cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
C.44-1978
رقم السجل
C.44-1978
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1180
ملاحظات
This jug is made from fritware (also called stone paste and quartz paste), an artificial ceramic body developed by Middle Eastern potters around the middle of the 11th century to imitate the hard, bright white body of imported Chinese porcelains. The main ingredient in fritware was fine quartz powder made by grinding sand or pebbles. Small quantities of white clay and a glassy substance known as frit were added â the clay to give plasticity, the frit to bind the body after firing. In the 12th and early 13th centuries, fritware was used in Kashan and other pottery centres in Iran to produce fine wares decorated in an astonishing range of styles. Since fritware holds a shape well, this allowed the potters to copy the complex shapes of metalwork vessels, as in the case of this jug, which was probably a drinking vessel. The decoration of this jug is painted in lustre, an overglaze technique using metallic pigments derived from silver and copper, first invented in Iraq in the early 9th century. The inscriptions painted in lustre on this vessel contain good wishes in Arabic, and Persian verses. This vessel was part of a hoard that was deliberately buried by its owner, probably a merchant who lived in Jurjan in north-east Iran, or who was passing through the city. In 1220, Jurjan was threatened by a Mongol invasion. The merchant packed the vessels in sand inside large storage jars and buried them for safekeeping. Soon afterwards, Jurjan was completely destroyed by the Mongols, and the owner never returned to recover the hoard. As a result, the vessels in this hoard survived together for almost 800 years, and in relatively good condition. The probable date of their burial also gives us a good indication of when the vessels in the hoard were made, as well as showing the wide variety of types of decoration that were used to make Iranian pottery at this time. The motif, around the lower part of the vessel, which looks like a series of chains has only been found on those vessels found at Jurjan, and may indicate they were all the products of a single workshop.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Fritware decorated with lustre over a transparent glaze
Fiziksel açıklama
Fritware jug decorated with lustre over a transparent glaze. The inscriptions contain good wishes in Arabic, and Persian verses.
Üretim
Probably Kashan
Üslup
Seljuk
