Fritware (stonepaste)
Pasta silícea (frita) cerámica
- Date
- c. 1150 · confidence medium
- Place
- Kashan, Isfahan, Iran
- Credited to
- Potters of Kashan (treatise of Abu al-Qasim Kashani, 1301)
- Field
- Matter & energy
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Ceramic body of ground quartz, a little clay and fritted glass that fires white and fine, allowing Chinese porcelain to be imitated without kaolin. It was the basis of Seljuk, Timurid and Iznik ceramics.
The earliest examples may be Egyptian (Fustat, 11th century); Kashan was the great centre, and Abu al-Qasim's treatise (1301) gives the recipe.
What it led to
- Iznik ceramics
- Persian and Ottoman tilework
- mina'i ware and Kashan lustreware