Compositional and technological characteristics of the inlay wall facing ceramics of the jamé mosque in Esfahan (Iran)
Conference Paper
Publication Date:
2004
abstract:
The technological properties and the chemical composition of the inlay wall facing ceramics of the Jamé Mosque in Esfahan (IRAN) were investigated. The inlay wall facing ceramics of the mosque are made of quartz-paste and clay-paste. The clay-bodies were found to less than homogeneous than the quartz-paste due to different type of supplying. The different type of paste influences the behavior of the glazes such as the black transparent glaze, applied over clay-paste showed a surface rich of pins.
Iris type:
04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Keywords:
Esfahan; Glaze; Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry; Iran; Islamic architectural ceramics; Jamé Mosque; Optical microscopy; X-ray diffractometry; X-ray fluorescence
List of contributors:
Fabbri, Bruno; Gualtieri, Sabrina
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