The technological development of stonepaste ceramics from the Islamic Middle East

Application of WDXRF in the provenance studies of Persian haft rang tiles: a statistical approach

“…The biplot also shows that all of the samples are not always correlated to one of the variables (the elements), and the amount of each element is equally distributed amongst the samples, except for the few previously mentioned samples. One should consider that all the analysed bodies cannot be considered as siliceous paste (stonepaste bodies), which were commonly in use in the mediaeval Iran for making ceramics' bodies because the silica content of these bodies is much lower than that of siliceous paste bodies, which is usually more than 90% (compared with less than 70% SiO 2 content of the bodies in Table ). Except the samples of Mazandaran (Behshahr and Amol cities corresponded to nos.…”

Technology issues of Byzantine glazed pottery from Corinth, Greece

“…4). The surface of these samples is mostly covered by large quartz grains which are bonded together by interparticle glass [25]. It should be highlighted that these two samples are the only whitewares with a bluecoloured glaze.…”

“…Glazed White Wares in particular are attributed to Constantinople. The two stonepaste samples are also considered imports from the Middle East [25]. As far as redwares are concerned, Group C is most likely imported, because of its specific use for particular classes and because its presence is limited to a particular period, as will be further discussed in Section 5.…”

Studies of the Iranian medieval ceramics surface modified by pulsed tea CO2 and Nd:YAG lasers

“…Ceramic objects are composed of a mixture of natural materials that are, by a variety of processes, transformed to a solid, brittle substance with high thermal resistance, high hardness and chemical stability. Ceramics played an important part in human lives throughout history [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. In the past, it was used for practical and decorative objects, as a structural material for buildings, aqueducts, etc.…”

“…Barone et al, [9], and Casaletto et al, [10] studied archeological ceramic artefacts found in different Italian sites, Coentro, [11] used multi-analytical methods for identification of pigment used in the 17th century Portuguese azulejos, and Pérez-Arantegui et al, [16] tested ancient cobaltblue-decorated ceramics from Aragon (Spain). Tite et al [21], Al-Saad [22], and Özçatala [24], investigated Islamic ceramics. The medieval ceramics from Ras and Bač (Serbia) were investigated as well [16,23].…”