EditorialUnknown (English), Goblet, c. 1815, Gold lusterware with molded relief decoration and polychrome enamel, Height x diemaeter: 4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in. (11.7 x 8.6 cm).
EditorialBowl, 1430?1460, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Tin-glazed earthenware, Diameter: 9', Ceramics, The technique of lusterware involves the use of a copper oxide which, when painted on in the desired patterns and fired separately, pro...
EditorialPharmacy Jar, 16th century, Made in Valencia, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 12 5/8 x 6 5/16 in. (32 x 16.1 cm), Ceramics, The albarello, a vessel introduced to Spain from the Near East through the spice trade, was rapidly adopt...
EditorialDeep Dish, ca. 1430, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Tin-glazed earthenware, Overall: 2 3/8 x 17 3/4 in. (6 x 45.1 cm), Ceramics, With shimmering copper tones, often combined with cobalt blue, lusterware from Valencia depends both i...
EditorialBottle, 17th century, Made in Iran, Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque blue glaze, with silver fittings, H. 11 in. (27.9 cm), Ceramics, Very few pieces of Iranian lusterware survive from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but this technique was r...
EditorialDish, 15th century, Made in Probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 2 3/8 x 15 3/16 in. (6.1 x 38.5 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialLuster-Painted Bottle, second half 17th century, Attributed to Iran, Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze, with silver fittings, H. 14 in. (35.6 cm), Ceramics, In the seventeenth century, lusterware production was revived in Iran. Painted w...
EditorialBowl, late 15th century, Made in Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware) (from cat. card: lustred faience, gold and brown), Overall: 2 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (5.7 x 13 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialPlate, ca. 1500, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 1 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (4.4 x 37.4 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialDish, 15th century, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 13 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (34.6 x 4.5 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialEwer, 12th?13th century, Attributed to Iran, Rayy, Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze, Ceramics, Some of the finest ceramics were made in Rayy, Iran, an important center of lusterware production until the Mongol destruction of the city in...
EditorialDish, 15th century, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 15 9/16 x 2 in. (39.6 x 5.1 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialPlate, 1450?1500, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 17 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (44.5 x 6 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialPharmacy Jar, 15th century, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 11 5/16 x 5 3/8 in. (28.7 x 13.7 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialPharmacy Jar, 16th century, Made in Valencia, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 12 5/8 x 6 5/16 in. (32 x 16.1 cm), Ceramics, The albarello, a vessel introduced to Spain from the Near East through the spice trade, was rapidly adopt...
EditorialPharmacy Jar, second half 15th century, Spanish, Earthenware, tin-glaze (lusterware), Overall: 11 9/16 x 5 1/4 in. (29.4 x 13.4 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialPlate, late 14th?early 15th century, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Tin-glazed earthenware, Overall: 2 3/4 x 17 11/16 in. (7 x 44.9 cm), Ceramics, Much early Manisan lusterware was influenced by Islamic designs introduced from Anda...
EditorialBowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent, late 1300s or early 1400s, Made in probably M?laga, Spain, Spanish, Tin-glazed earthenware, Overall: 3 5/8 x diam. 17 5/16 in. (9.2 x diam. 44 cm), Ceramics, The city of M?laga in the Islamic kingdom of Granada ...
EditorialBowl, 1430?1460, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Tin-glazed earthenware, Diameter: 9', Ceramics, The technique of lusterware involves the use of a copper oxide which, when painted on in the desired patterns and fired separately, pro...
EditorialJug, 1435?75, Made in probably Manises, Valencia, Spain, Spanish, Tin-glazed earthenware, Overall: 8 1/2 x 7 13/16 x 6 3/4 in. (21.6 x 19.9 x 17.2 cm), Ceramics, The ivy-leaf pattern was one of the most common motifs in fifteenth-century Valencian lust...
EditorialGoblet with Applied Decoration, 11th?early 12th century, Attributed to Iran, Colorless glass with greenish tinge; blown, applied decoration, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Glass, This dainty goblet with a flange, or projecting ridge, and a splayed foot would ...
EditorialFigure of an Apple, 1800?1830, Made in Staffordshire, England, British (American market), Earthenware, lusterware, H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diam. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialFlask with Harpies, Animals, and Human Figures in Lush Vegetation and a Pond, late 12th?13th century, Attributed to Iran, Kashan, Stonepaste; molded, luster-painted over opaque white glaze, 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm), Ceramics, Only a closer look at this fad...
EditorialBowl, 1800?1830, Made in Staffordshire, England, British (American market), Earthenware, lusterware, 3 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (7.9 x 15.9 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialBottle, 17th century, Made in Iran, Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque blue glaze; silver, H. 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm), Ceramics, This pear-shaped bottle with a silver top is in many ways typical of the pieces created during the late seventeenth-century ...
EditorialBowl, 1700?50, Made in Spain, Manises (Valencia), Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze, H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm), Ceramics, Much of Manisan lusterware was influenced by Islamic designs introduced from Andaluc?a by immigrant Mud?jar or conver...
EditorialGoblet, 1800?1830, Made in Staffordshire, England, British (American market), Earthenware, lusterware, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); Diam. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialLusterware dish by the Renaissance master potter Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, Italy. Decorated with portrait of a beauty with ribbons Angela Bella. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Potte...