luster
Iran
13th Century
Source: Babaie, Sussan. "Cookery and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan." The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 18, no. 3 (2018): 148-153.
Recipe Details
Evidence
"A luster bowl with musicians at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is encircled by repeated, seemingly infinite blessings of happiness and well-being in its outermost register; mid-thirteenth century, Iran, Kashan, stonepaste, luster-painted on opaque monochrome glaze"
Remarks
Luster refers here to the metallic decorative layer applied over an opaque monochrome glaze on a stonepaste bowl (p. 150). This example is attributed to 13th-century Kashan, a renowned center for ceramic production in Iran (p. 150).
Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
RegionIran
Approx. Year1250
Source Information
AuthorBabaie, Sussan. "Cookery and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan." The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 18, no. 3
CollectionKashan
Language
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