1994/02/01 by Robert B. Mason, M. S. TITE · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Building materials and conservation #Pottery #Islam #Eleventh #Frit #Ninth #Archaeology #Ancient history #History
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1994.tb01066.x
openalex publication_date 1994/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
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.