Pottery with Luster Decoration
Among the Safavid ceramics, those with luster decoration occupy a distinguished place. The art of luster painting, which declined in the fifteenth century, was revived in the time of Shah Abbas by the pottery of Isfahan and other places pear-shaped bottles with slender necks, bowls, wares, and small drinking cups were richly decorated in luster of various colors, such as gold, brown, and coppered on a white, dark blue, light blue, or yellow ground. Sometimes the bottles are fluted, with alternation of colors and also of the decoration of flutings, as in figure 137, the decoration is purely Iranian and is characteristic of the Safavid style. The most common motives are naturalistic landscapes with birds, animals, and plants painted in a sketchy, almost impressionistic manner. In several
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pieces, as in a bottle and a disk in the Moore collection of the Museum, under glaze painting in grayish blue and luster painting are effectively combined.
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