Couverture de Abbasid Lusterware: How 9th-Century Baghdad Made Pottery Shine Like Gold

Abbasid Lusterware: How 9th-Century Baghdad Made Pottery Shine Like Gold

Abbasid Lusterware: How 9th-Century Baghdad Made Pottery Shine Like Gold

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In this late-night deep dive, we explore how Abbasid potters in 9th-century Baghdad and Basra invented lusterware — pottery that gleams like real gold and silver through secret kiln alchemy.

We cover:

  • The metallic magic of reduction firing and nanoparticles
  • Influences from Sassanian silver and Byzantine enamels
  • Why Harun al-Rashid gifted these to Charlemagne
  • Connections from the House of Wisdom to modern tech coatings

Part of a series on Islamic ceramics and East-West exchange.


Sources & further reading:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art lusterware collection
  • British Museum Abbasid ceramics
  • “Islamic Pottery: A Brief History” – Ashmolean Museum


#IslamicCeramics #Abbasid #Baghdad #Lusterware #HistoryDeepDive

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