{"id":3221,"date":"2025-11-03T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:33:27","slug":"fritware-the-islamic-worlds-elegant-answer-to-chinese-porcelain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Fritware: The Islamic World&#8217;s Elegant Answer to Chinese Porcelain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my PowerPoint from the class I taught at the last Royal University of the Midrealm, October 11, 2025. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FRITWARE-POWERPOINT-OCT-14.pptx\">FRITWARE POWERPOINT OCT 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-medium wp-image-3222\" src=\"http:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535-300x283.png\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27283%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20283%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27283%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535-200x189.png 200w, https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535-400x377.png 400w, https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535-600x566.png 600w, https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-10-10-111535.png 709w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This is a picture I used to illustrate several innovations the potters of Islam used to compete with Chinese porcelain. Lusterware which mimics gold through a reduction firing process. This plate from the Ashmolean, Iraq 10th Century, shows how the potters mimic the hammer marks from metal works. The plate also dispels the myth that Islam forbids imagery of people and animals. This plate actually shows the image of the Buddha! Which I think is fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my PowerPoint from the class I taught at the last Royal University of the Midrealm, October 11, 2025. \u00a0FRITWARE POWERPOINT OCT 14. This is a picture I used to illustrate several innovations the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveearthart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}