1994/02/01 by Robert B. Mason, M. S. TITE · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Ancient history #Archaeology #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Architecture and Cultural Influences #Eleventh #Frit #History #Islam #Ninth #Pottery
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1994.tb00712.x
openalex publication_date 1994/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
A multidisciplinary programme of research on Islamic pottery has been focused on questions of the dating, provenance and technology of Islamic pottery. One particular question has been the development of stonepaste, a material made primarily of crushed quartz with added frit-glass and clay. The combination of the different approaches of this study has revealed early foundations for the technology in ninth-century AD Iraq, apparently originating in the clay ceramic rather than the ‘Egyptian faience’ tradition. Subsequent and final practice developed in tenth- and eleventh-century AD Egypt. This technology becomes the primary body for all fine Islamic ceramics.