Art in an Early Global World at WAM: A WAM/College of the Holy Cross CollaborationMain MenuAmanda Luyster17d39c1ecea88fb7ff282fe74a410b89478b8327Created by the Worcester Art Museum and the College of the Holy Cross, with the Worcester Public Schools AP Art History class of 2024. Financial support provided by the Medieval Academy of America and "Scholarship in Action" at Holy Cross.
Bowl with Seated Figure 1918.18
12024-03-28T13:30:39-07:00Richard Lent3e723f35a685aebf07b8b602f188f085f3fa0c8f448012Bowl with Seated Figure, from the area of Rayy, 1200-1299, frit body, painted in luster on an opaque white glaze, Museum Purchase, 1918.18.plain2024-08-15T11:29:53-07:00Zoe Zimmer726b0bce27fe407b566d2fd9122871e9e9ddcf50
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12024-03-28T13:30:37-07:00Who made this bowl?3plain2024-10-22T16:43:58-07:00 An individual potter for this bowl is unknown. However we do know the techniques behind lusterware manufacture must have been sustained by passing the practice down from potter to potter, and taught to local ceramists as the practice traveled from region to region. The techniques behind lusterware production needed to be explicitly taught, as simply looking at a finished lusterware ceramic leaves no clues about the methods used in production or the intricacies of its manufacture.
Techniques behind luster production would have been closely guarded, due to the fact that the production materials and finished product were both expensive. Lusterware potters sought to monopolize this ceramic technique for their own monetary profit, and as such, knowledge of luster-making appears to have been restricted to families of specialist craftsmen who kept it to themselves.
Grace P. Morrissey, College of the Holy Cross, Class of 2022
