Studies on form, shape and techniques of decoration in European ceramics. Innovations originating in Southeast Asia and the Islamic world.

  • Weimarck, Ann-Charlotte (PI)

Project: Research

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The empirical data is initially Muslim ceramics from the 800s with a special iridescent glaze, the so-called lustre, invented and developed by potters in Iraq, Egypt, Iran and Syria. The history of lustre ceramics is initially studied and especially its further development in different ceramics of the European countries and époques right up to around 1900.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2013/01/012016/12/31