qajar period is recognized as a time of significant changes in persian arts. perhaps the most obvious change was the influence of european arts especially on architecture, painting as well as pottery. however after safavid period as to several inside and outside factors, amongst them vast importation of porcelain wares, iran was faced with stagnation of pottery’s art but this doesn’t mean the a...

The importation of Chinese porcelain and celadon into Europe has long been thought to have first begun around the thirteenth century AD. A unique group ceramic sherds from archaeological contexts in Spain dated between ninth eleventh centuries, however, now represents earliest wares identified Europe. Such an unexpectedly early presence on high-status sites Western probably reflects changing pa...

china is one of the oldest and most important countries in the world that has had an important role in the process of pottery production. especially chinese potters have had an inimitable skill in production of porcelain wares. although impress of chinese pottery on iran returns to the early periods after islam but during timurid and safavid periods this impress is more greater especially in ma...

Abstract This paper presents new data from the Husi kiln site, Hubei Province, China, where unusual size calls into question primacy of Jingdezhen in porcelain production medieval China. With its over 180 kilns, site rivals size, yet it has found no mention textual accounts. The wares produced at include Qingbai and grey-greenish ware Tang Song periods (seventh to thirteenth century AD). compos...

Samples of northern porcelain wares dating to between the 6th and 13th centuries from three most important Chinese ceramic kiln sites, Gongyi, Xing Ding have been studied in this work. The Sr isotope chemical compositions glazes these determined. Based on scientific results we able suggest raw materials used make glazes. Using Strontium isotopic analysis successfully shown that earliest use lim...

This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue-and-white porcelains, both archaeologically scientifically, based on published data, compares with sancai, which represents the earliest use cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics. Thirty-nine wares seven have been excavated from city sites, kilns, a tomb, shipwreck, pagodas. These findings identify as export ware related to Maritime Silk Road or sug...