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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.
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 ...
The earliest major centre of fine pottery in Al-Andalus was Málaga in southern Spain. [3] This is the major centre whose best-known wares were produced in a Muslim kingdom, as opposed to by a workforce presumed to be largely Muslim, or Morisco, under Christian rule.
Lajvardina-type ceramics were developed in the 13th century following the Mongol invasion of Persia. It was produced throughout the Ilkhanate [ broken anchor ] reign. It is characterized by its deep blue color and often features geometric patterns or foliage inlaid with gold leaf.
Islamic art has very notable achievements in ceramics, both in pottery and tiles for walls, which in the absence of wall-paintings were taken to heights unmatched by other cultures. Early pottery is often unglazed, but tin-opacified glazing was one of the earliest new technologies developed by the Islamic potters.
Islamic decoration and craftsmanship had a significant influence on Western art when Venetian merchants brought goods of many types back to Italy from the 14th century onwards. [37] The tessellations of zellij tilework in the Alhambra of Granada were also an important source of inspiration for the work of 20th-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher.
Chinese pottery was the object of gift-making in Islamic lands: the Islamic writer Muhammad Ibn-al-Husain-Bahaki wrote in 1059 that Ali Ibn Isa, the governor of Khurasan, presented Harun al-Rashid, the Caliph, twenty pieces of Chinese imperial porcelain, the like of which had never been at a caliph's court before, in addition to 2,000 other ...
Pottery Vessel, 4th millennium BC Lustreware bowl from Susa, 9th century Bowl with a hunting scene from the tale of the 5th-century king Bahram Gur and Azadeh, mina'i ware. Persian pottery or Iranian pottery is the pottery made by the artists of Persia (Iran) and its history goes back to early Neolithic Age (7th millennium BCE). [1]