Early Islamic Pottery:
Materials and techniques
Anne-Marie Bernsted

ISBN: 1-873132-98-0 • 2003 • $45 • Paper

This illustrated volume is in two parts: ceramic raw materials and technique and chemical and petrographic investigations. Pottery of the early Islamic period is made accessible to those interested in ceramic techniques--manufacture, materials and pigments of both body and glazes. The contents also include unglazed, pre-Islamic pottery; early glazes; white-ground decoration; inglaze colours; lustre wars; slip-painted ware (Nishapur type); slip-painted ware (Garrus type); Fritware; Silhouette ware; Raqqa ware; Laqabi ware; relief-moulded ware; Minai ware, Lajvardina ware; kilns; techniques and methods in the chemical and petrographic investigation of the pottery; clay properties; Iraqui ware and clay; Egyptian ware and Egyptian clay; Syrian ware and Syrian clay; Persian ware and Persian clay; topography and occurrence of ceramic raw materials: Iraq; Egypt; Syria; Iran; bibliography; subject index; and place-name index.