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[morgaina]

I posted previously that I found a plate that I like better than any Medieval design I have yet seen. It can be found here: http://www.discoverislamicart.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;es;Mus01;3;en
So, of course, I used the design.


Done in underglazes as was the original. I didn't include the caligraphy because I never feel that I know its exact meaning. The shape of the band through the center & lettering on the original I like too and may do something similar.


Again with the Pelican design, this time done with champleve. I really like the negative space formed by the bird's head and left wing.

Comments

[mistresshuette.livejournal.com]

Very lovely! Your designs are always so. As to the calligraphy, I read somewhere that most of the potters and the pottery designers of the era were illiterate, which is why they are so hard to read, even if you could read Islamic script.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Thanks.
That is interesting about the illiteracy. The lettering in the original plate is primitive, perhaps that potter was too???