ABSTRACT
Total: 464 items. Almost all Islamic periods and countries as well as various techniques are represented in the collection: from the 8th-18th c., from Spain in the West to India in the East and from Turkey in the north to Yemen in the south. The collection contains items from the early unglazed modelled and moulded pottery to tin-glazed, lustre-ware, splashware, slipcoated and buffware of Nishapur and Samarqand, monochrome glazed, laqabi, silouette, Garrus, Sari, minai, Sultanabad, underglazed stain - painted such as blue-and-white (Ming), Kubachi, Iznik, etc. Glass Total: 135 items. Almost all periods, countries and techniques are represented, but in a limited number and sometimes in the form of shards and fragments: from the 8th19th c., from countries such as Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran and India. The collection contains items of various techniques: mould-blown and free blown vessels with applied decorations, cameo, mille-fiori, wheel-cut glass, applied and marvered glass, exclusively Islamic Ayyubid and Mamluk enamalled and gilded glass.
