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The Georgia State University Library was established in 1948 as a branch of the University of Georgia Library. In 1951, the library purchased over 2,000 volumes from James Walter Mason. [2] The original library staff only had three trained employees. [2] After seven years of expansion, the library found a home on the second floor of Sparks Hall ...
The era of Islamic pottery started around 622. From 633, Muslim armies moved rapidly towards Persia, Byzantium, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt and later al-Andalus. The early history of Islamic pottery remains somewhat obscure and speculative as little evidence has survived.
Ceramic styles popular in the Islamic world include lustreware (with a thin metallic film), sgraffiato (in which the design is etched into the slip), and underglaze pottery. [79] Khalili's ceramic collection, numbering nearly 2,000 items, has been described as particularly strong in pottery of the Timurid era and also that of pre-Mongol Bamiyan ...
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Lustreware was a speciality of Islamic pottery, at least partly because the use of drinking and eating vessels in gold and silver, the ideal in ancient Rome and Persia as well as medieval Christian societies, is prohibited by the Hadiths, [2] with the result that pottery and glass were used for tableware by Muslim elites, when Christian ...
The exact date of this change, fundamental for the whole history of Islamic ceramics, remains very vague, for lack of a precise chronological marker.We can nevertheless make several remarks concerning the stylistic evolution of the decorations.We are thus witnessing the appearance of a figurative, animal and anthropomorphic decoration, very ...
Bowl with couple in a garden, around 1200. In this type of scene, the figures are larger than in other common subjects. Diameter 18.8 cm. [1] Side view of the same bowl Mina'i ware is a type of Persian pottery, or Islamic pottery, developed in Kashan in the decades leading up to the Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia in 1219, after which production ceased. [2]
Early Islamic lustreware ceramics were predominately produced in Lower Mesopotamia during the ninth and tenth centuries. [24] In the Great Mosque of Kairouan , Tunisia , the upper part of the mihrab is adorned with polychrome and monochrome lustreware tiles; dating from 862 to 863, these tiles were most probably imported from Mesopotamia.