Black and Blue Painted Bowl, early 13th century, Made in Iran, probably Kashan, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Ceramics, The whiteness of stonepaste provided a canvas upon which potters could paint pigments directly, rather than applying a slip. By the early thirteenth century, a new type emerged, decorated in black and blue against the white ground, usually with vegetal motifs inside radial frameworks
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Black, Blue Painted Bowl, early 13th century, Iran, Kashan, Stonepaste, polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H, 3 7/8, 9.8 cm, Ceramics, whiteness, stonepaste provided, canvas upon, potters, paint pigments, directly, applying, slip, thirteenth, century, new type, emerged, decorated, black, blue, white ground, usually, vegetal motifs, inside, radial, frameworks
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