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Luster Pottery

Luster Pottery

Author: Alan Caiger-Smith

The art of pottery is one of the finest arts that accompanied different civilizations since ancient times. This book talks about the contributions of Muslim artists in ceramic & pottery art and how they reached pots of ceramics instead of golden and silver pots by using a technique called luster. This technique is still a mystery that baffles people what they possess of Science and Technology.

This book explains the technical of luster pottery and where it spread and makes pottery a source for determining the ages of ancient civilizations.

It proves the role of Muslims in the evolution of different civilizations in Mesopotamia and in Andalusia, which constitute southern Spain today.