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TitleDish

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureIranian

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date1473–1474

Object typeContainer

MaterialsFaience and cobalt

DimensionsDiam. 13 3/4 in. (35 cm)

LocationThe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/10.+porcelain%2c+faience%2c+ceramics/214561

Accession numberVГ-2650

SubjectsPottery, TimuridIslamic decoration and ornamentIslamic pottery

StatusMashhad, Iran

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Chapter 3: The Islamic World (1400–1600)

Aimée E. Froom

History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000

~~Prior to 1400 several major design traditions flourished and disappeared from the Islamic world. The fifteenth century saw the “golden twilight” of Islamic Spain before the Christian Reconquest of 1492. In other parts of the Islamic world, a decorative style based on floral vine scrolls, arabesques, and Chinese-inspired...

Author

Aimée E. Froom

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.49-65

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00219.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20622&redirecttoanchor=57823

Chapter subject tags:Islam--Spain--HistoryIslamic decorative artsIslamic decoration and ornamentMamelukes--HistoryRugs, MamelukePottery, MamelukeAlhambra (Granada, Spain)Pottery, TimuridMetal-work, TimuridIllumination of books and manuscripts, TimuridTextile fabrics, SafavidIran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736Pottery, SafavidMetal-work, SafavidTurkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Metal-work, OttomanIslamic textile fabricsPottery, OttomanRugs, Ottoman Empire

5. The Arts in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids and their Contemporaries

Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom

The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250–1800

As with architecture, the decorative arts created under the Timurids and their contemporaries set the standards of excellence for generations in Iran, as well as India and Turkey. Not only were Timurid models emulated, compositions repeated, and techniques followed, but...

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Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.55-69

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00124.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15664&redirecttoanchor=57823

Chapter subject tags:Islamic art--IranIslamic art--Asia, CentralArt, TimuridIslamic illumination of books and manuscriptsIslamic decorative arts

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