2015年8月21日 · Islamic ceramics production gained momentum in ninth-century Abbasid Iraq, during a period referred to as the golden age of Islamic culture, a time in which literature, philosophy, science and artistic endeavor flourished in a region that cultivated trade connections with lands as far as China.

Images of all 302 pieces of Islamic ceramics, spanning the Islamic period (7th-19th centuries), represent Egypt and other areas of the Middle East such as Iran and Turkey that were important ceramic production sites, making this an excellent resource for classroom use.

In the medieval Islamic world, clay-based ceramics were widespread. Besides oil lamps, cups, flasks, bowls, and other drinking and dining vessels, ceramic was used to make wall revetments and architectural elements such as muqarnas (stalactite niches).

A select catalogue of the Ashmolean's collection of ceramics from the Islamic world from the 9th to 18th century, by James Allen (published Oxford, 1991). See all 46 related objects

2020年8月31日 · The history of ceramics in Islamic art is unique like none of its contemporaries. The rest of the world was making unglazed pottery. Meanwhile, Islamic potters were developing a tin-opacified glazing. Some of these are on the blue-painted ware of Basra, Iraq, that dates as far back as 700 AD.

What we may at times overlook, however, is the way our admiration for Chinese ceramics developed, and the complex ways in which, over the centuries, the ceramic traditions of the Islamic world in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Mediterranean served as transmitters of …

The Ashmolean Museum houses an extensive collection of Islamic ceramics, originating from a wide region stretching from Spain to Central Asia, and ranging in date from the earliest centuries of Islam to the 19th century.

Islamic art has notable achievements in ceramics, both in pottery and tiles for buildings, which reached heights unmatched by other cultures. Early pottery had usually been unglazed, but a tin-opacified glazing technique was developed by Islamic potters.

The Museum of Islamic Ceramics takes visitors back to the early days of Islamic ceramics, highlighting the rich history and artistry of this celebrated period. The collection includes various pieces from Abbasid, Fatimid, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods.

Khorasan, Transoxiana, Nishapur and Samarqand emerged as the main centres of ceramic production under the Samanids, during the 10 th and 11th centuries, producing some of the most strikingly beautiful ceramics of the medieval Islamic period.