Lusterware
Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East

Lustreware (UK spelling) or Lusterware (U.S. spelling) is a style of decorated ceramic with a metallic glaze, a form of decoration which spread from the Middle East through Persia and Syria, to Fatimid Egypt, and then through Europe by way of Spain and Italy.


PERSIAN LUSTERWARE

SYRIAN LUSTERWARE

See also "Tell Minis" Ware.

EGYPTIAN LUSTERWARE

SPANISH LUSTERWARE

See also Hispano-Moorish ceramics at the Musée du Moyen Âge.

ITALIAN LUSTERWARE

Many of these are plates in the bella donna style of maiolica.