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The technology of polychrome glazed ceramics in Ifriqiya: new data from the site of Chimtou
Ifriqiya (roughly Tunisia and eastern Algeria) is believed to have played a significant role in the diffusion of ceramic glazed technologies into...
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Indigeneity and innovation of early Islamic glaze technology: the case of the Coptic Glazed Ware
This study investigates how the technology of Coptic Glazed Ware (CGW) – which is one of the earliest examples of Islamic glazed pottery – was...
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Cizhou Ceramics of the Tsarevsky Medieval City in the Collection of the Archaeological Museum of the Kazan University
This paper presents the analysis results by the SEM–EDS method of the chemical composition of the glaze and the base of Chinese ceramics of the...
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Madīnat al-Zahrā’ or Madīnat Qurtuba? First evidences of the Caliphate tin glaze production of ‘verde y manganeso’ ware
The first workshop evidence of the Caliphate polychrome tin-glaze production known as ‘verde y manganeso’ in al-Andalus has been found in the...
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Purposefully purple: understanding the technological transition from late Medieval green to purple glazed Humber wares
The rise of purple glazed pottery in fifteenth-century England represented a major change in the character of domestic material culture. These wares...
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Materials and technique of lajvardina ceramics from the thirteenth to fourteenth century Iran
Studied by micro X-ray fluorescence (µ-XRF), scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM–EDS) and micro-Raman spectroscopy...
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Ceramic technology. How to characterise ceramic glazes
Glazes add value to ceramic, improve its appearance (colour and shine) and make it waterproof. Through the choice of colours and designs, glazes made...
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Tackling early medieval circulation of glazed ware in Sharq al-Andalus using a multidisciplinary approach: El Tolmo de Minateda (Spain)
This paper offers an analysis of a group of glazed ceramics that comes from El Tolmo de Minateda site and have been dated in the second half of the...
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Rediscovering the largest kiln site in the middle Yangtze River Valley: insights into Qingbai and grey-greenish ware production at Husi kiln site based on bulk chemical analysis
This paper presents new data from the Husi kiln site, Hubei Province, China, where the unusual size calls into question the primacy of **gdezhen in...
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Technological changes in the glazed wares of northern Tunisia in the transition from Fatimid to Zirid rule
A representative selection of glazed ceramics recovered from medieval Islamic contexts excavated in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia)...
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Investigation of provenances of Early Islamic lead glazes from northern Central Asia using elemental and lead isotope analyses
A representative collection of Early Islamic glazed ceramics from eleven sites in southern Kazakhstan were characterized by compositional ( n = 95)...
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Provenance and production technology of late medieval ‘Besztercebánya/Banská Bystrica–type’ high-quality stove tiles
A unique collection of high-quality late medieval (fifteenth–sixteenth century) glazed and unglazed stove tiles from the northern part of the...
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Glazed sgraffito ware from Torre Alemanna (Foggia, fifteenth to sixteenth century A.D.): technological aspects of a local production
The archaeometric investigation of 46 potsherds of “Torre Alemanna type” pottery aimed to define a compositional reference group and to understand...
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Petrochemical attributes of glazed architectural elements from Middle-Elamite to Achaemenid excavation sites in Iran
Glazed decoration in Iran from the Middle Elamite to the Achaemenid periods includes world art milestones. With the exception of Hasanlu IVB, for...
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Chemical and Technological Characteristics of Glazed Vessels from the Pottery Workshop of the Tsarevskoye Medieval City
Glazed pottery is a vivid symbol of the Golden Horde culture. The production of glazed dishes, mosaic architectural tiles, and toys was established...
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Ceramic technology: how to characterise black Fe-based glass-ceramic coatings
The study of the ancient black ceramic coating that decorates the surface of Classical and Hellenistic pottery from Attica and other main production...
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Middle Eastern Glazed Ceramics of the 11th Century in Bilyar, the Capital of Volga Bulgaria
This work presents the analysis of Middle Eastern artistic ceramics of the eleventh century, obtained during the excavation of the city of Bilyar...
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Defining new technological traditions of Late Islamic Arabia: a view on Bahlā Ware from al-Ain (UAE) and the lead-barium glaze production
In this paper, the monochrome glazed Bahlā Ware from al-Ain dated between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries (Late Islamic Arabian Period) has...
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Comparative pottery technology between the Middle Ages and Modern times (Santarém, Portugal)
Combining historical, archaeological and experimental data, traditional and archaeological ceramics, from the Santarém district, with different...
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Making the most of expert knowledge to analyse archaeological data: a case study on Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery
Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach,...
