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An important development in Islamic pottery was the discovery that the technique of lustre painting, which by the ninth century had been used for glass, could be applied to pottery with even more spectacular results, and also could be combined with in-glaze staining. By applying a combination of metallic oxides, sulphur and other substances to the glazed surface and firing in an oxygen-poor muffle kiln, an infinitesimally thin metallic layer of gold, silver or copper was deposited on the surface. However, the process was difficult to control; the ultimate effect depended to a large extent on the firing conditions in the kiln. Over-firing tended to dull the colours but a few surviving vessels with brilliant metallic gold lustre on a ruby ground give a good idea of what the potters intended to produce.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Jug with Lustre Decoration
Date
9th C
Medium
buff-bodied earthenware, painted with polychrome lustre on an opacified white tin glaze
Accession number
315
Work type
Sculpture
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