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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY DISH, TURKEY, CIRCA 1575 of shallow round form with an everted rim, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, gre...

Tile 10 - 7th star tile. Part of the Imam Zade Yahya,Veramin group. British Museum. Museum number G.468. Fritware (stonepaste),...

This plate came about when I was searching for medieval ceramics with a fox motif. Oddly enough, the image below popped up in the google se...

Jain art - Celestial performer Kapasutra manuscript folio Gujarat 1490 I found an interesting blog that has some musing on late period...

I made this one for Berengar and Rachel's first. I don't know if they're having a boy or a girl, but I thought this'd be...

From closer examination of Persian head scarf images from the previous post, I think the argument for square / triangle is actually mis...

This is the last tile I'm going to post for sometime. There's nothing really new to say about them except post a picture of the fini...

Lobed plate featuring a bird (peasant?) Why: Because I could, and because I had a spare lobed plate from the Sultanabad Dove project a...

 Some Persian head scarves, possibly block printed: 1                                                                           ...

Tile 5   Star tile from the British Museum. 14th C, Kashan. It's getting harder and harder to find good crosses. I tried three...

Tiles 6, 4 and 7 Tile 4 is the terminus star tile (in the center). So there are no new cruciforms, just one star. I still haven'...

Notes from Persian Ceramics from the 9th to the 14th century: An alkaline solution obtained with potassium oxide is easily altered and cer...

From the Ashmolean on Iranian tiles: Tiles were not produced in great quantities before circa 1200, and large-scale tile production kick...

I present Wisdom of the Ages, part I. And by ages, I mean my grandfathers pottery diary he kindly gave me when he realized I was interested ...

Preliminary documentation for potential November Crown A&S entry - an Illuminated letter H (12) Title ...

GoCAD crashed? Lost your unsaved data? Well, you've made a rookie mistake and there's no recovering from that. You'll have to...

I've been busy with moving house so haven't made anything new recently. I do have three half written posts about completed tiles nee...