Persian Ceramics History

While the majority of the collection consists of ceramic vessels and figurines bronzes and textiles are also represented.

Persian ceramics history.

One of the oldest is persian pottery made by the artists of persia iran. To the early 19th century. Its wares are characterized by a very strong bright blue and a wavy rather bubbly glaze. Persian pottery as a craft has very long history which goes back to the 7th millennium bc.

One of the later kiln sites in persia is kerman which was the leading pottery centre in the 17th century. The iranian collection at the milwaukee public museum consists of over 300 artifacts spanning more than 6 000 years of history from the fourth millennium b c. Here again the pottery finds date to 8000 bce. One of the earliest known and excavated prehistoric sites that produced pottery is ganj darreh tappeh in the kermanshah region dating back to the 8th millennium bce another great discovery was made south of the caspian sea in a cave in the so called kamarband belt cave near present day behshahr.

Earthenware is actually one of the oldest handicrafts in the world. When agriculture came into existence and cultivation started on iran s plateau by primitive races of this land people made utensils of baked clay in order to meet their needs. Throughout the centuries since the early neolithic age functional potteryware has been created in various forms all around the world made and designed by many cultures. Pseudo chinese marks were frequently added to the blue and white.

The history of the art of pottery in iran goes back into ancient time. Agriculture gave rise to the baking of clay and the making of utensils by the people of iran. Later wares were made from earthenware clays with a layer of white slip engobe.