#fritware

[arthistoryanimalia]

#ThreeForThursday :

Dish (with a lion, dog, and stag)

Ottoman: Iznik, Türkiye, c.1585-1600

Fritware (polychrome, painted & glazed); H 29.8 cm

V & A 343-1897

[findlight]

Fritware jar, possibly Syrian or Iranian, 18th or 19th century. Painted with a pattern of fish in black enamel, under a greenish-blue glaze, 

[davidwfloydart]

Fritware tile panel, painted in blue, turquoise, and moss green under a transparent glaze. Turkey, Iznik; c. 1540 #turkishtiles #turkishtileart #bluey #blueandturquoise #fritware #glazedceramic #artworks (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpanx97JwHhatncI8bRYVF3xH_nSX7mlygYWoY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ashmoleanmuseum]

Radial-Patterned Dish

This underglazed fritware dish with a delightful radial pattern is from 13th-century Iran.

The rise of fritware drastically changed the ceramic art form in Islamic countries around this time. Fritware was largely made of quartz with small amounts of glass and fine white clay, and Islamic potters used it creatively as a background for a variety of incised, moulded and painted decoration.

Underglazing had also become a popular technique by the turn of the 13th century. Potters initially experimented with the application of a black slip under the glaze (‘silhouette’ ware) until they obtained full control over thin pigments which would not run during the firing, as you can see on this object.

[designobjectory]

Ewer1200-1220, artist unknown Place Of Origin: Kashan, Iran

This striking fritware ewer was made in Kashan in Iran around 1200–1220, when this city was producing some of the most striking Islamic ceramics. The body was produced using an impressively accomplished double-shell technique. The plain inner shell – the container for the liquid – was formed, given a monochrome turquoise glaze, and fired in the normal manner. The perforated outer shell was then made around the turquoise centre and decorated in black. Parts of the decoration, including the inscriptions above and below the openwork area, were scratched through this black paint. The outer shell was then glazed in turquoise to match the inner shell, and the whole piece was fired again. The mouth of the ewer was moulded in the form of a cock’s head, and the handle as tail feathers, with details added in black. Such bird- and animal-shaped elements had been a common feature of metalwork ewers since the beginning of the Islamic period, and the double-shell technique, too, may have been inspired by metalwork with openwork decoration.

[heaveninawildflower]

Moulded ceramic tile (Iran, mid-19th century).

The tile depicts four grandees associated with the court of Nasir al-Din Shah (reigned 1848–96) of the Qajar Dynasty (1785–1925). 

Image and text information courtesy Brooklym Museum.     

[pollyj]

Tile from a Qur’anic Frieze  Probably Kashan, Iran, early 14th century  Fritware, underglaze and lustre-painted 

[fishstickmonkey]

Bowl with floral and calligraphic decoration

Associated place: Iran (place of creation), Kāshān (probable) 

Date: early 13th century

Material and technique: fritware, with underglaze painting in blue and black

Ashmolean Museum