Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1260
Publication Place
Kashan (made) -
Subject
Foxes
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 9.9cm, Diameter: 21.6cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
C.1955-1910
Record ID
C.1955-1910
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1260
Notes
This bowl illustrates the new shapes and designs used when lustre production resumed in Iran about 1260. Its shape and panelled decoration copy Chinese bowls imported at this time. The Mongol invasions disrupted lustre production in about 1220. When it resumed some forty years later, potters introduced new shapes and designs, as this bowl shows. About 1285, production ceased again, and no lustre ware was made in Iran until the 17th century. The technique of lustre decoration on ceramics was first developed in Iraq in the 9th century. Potters made a glazed vessel or tile with little or no decoration in the normal way. When the piece had cooled, they painted a design over the glaze in metallic compounds. The pot or tile was then fired again, this time with a restricted supply of oxygen. In these conditions, the metallic compounds broke down, and a thin deposit of copper or silver was left on the surface of the glaze. When polished, this surface layer reflected the light.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Fritware with lustre decoration Fritware Lustre-Painted
Fiziksel açıklama
Fritware bowl with lustre-painted decoration divided into 8 wedges, with foxes and stylized inscriptions (2 wedges each) and interlocking S-shapes (4 wedges). The exterior divided into 'petal panels'.
Üslup
Il-Khanid Islamic
