Name | Dynasty | Details | Justification |
Great Mosque of Kairouan | Hegira 221 / AD 836Umayyad, Abbasid | Kairouan, Tunisia | On the wall of the mihrab in the Great Mosque, polychrome lustre tiles from Iraq alternated with simpler locally made bichromatic lustre tiles.Name | Dynasty | Details | Justification |
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Great Mosque of Kairouan | Hegira 221 / AD 836Umayyad, Abbasid | Kairouan, Tunisia | General view of the courtyard and minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan. | Great Mosque of Kairouan | Hegira 221 / AD 836Umayyad, Abbasid | Kairouan, Tunisia | Interior view of one of the arched and columned areas of the Great Mosque of Kairouan. | |
Vertical-sided bowl | Hegira 4th century / AD 10th centuryAbbasid | Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci" Rome, Italy | The yellow-gold sheen is achieved on lustre ceramics by applying silver oxide, the most expensive of all the pigments. On this bowl, cobalt blue has also been used. |
Dish with imaginary animal | Hegira 4th century / AD 10th centuryAbbasid | Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci" Rome, Italy | Arabic kufic inscriptions blessing the owner, accompany the elaborately painted bird on this dish. |
Bowl with wing-shaped palmettes | Hegira second half of 3rd century / AD second half of 9th centuryAbbasid | Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci" Rome, Italy | Two lustre pigments have been employed on this bowl. The highly decorated wing-shaped motifs in the centre are inspired by both contemporary designs in stucco and by Sassanian art. |
Plate with metallic glaze | Hegira, late 3rd–early 4th centuries / AD 9th–10th centuriesAghlabid | Museum of Islamic Art Raqqada, Kairouan, Tunisia | The combination of lustre decoration and splashes of green under the glaze is characteristic of North African lustre ware. |