Luster-painted Glass-Earthenware

This type of Glass-Earthenware, the most beautiful, is too difficult to produce and involved patterns in relief. Potters often gave relief to certain areas of their work, which they subsequently luster painted.

Floral scrolls or pierced protuberances were drawn on clay surface before the first firing, following which color layers were added.

Glass-Earthenware of Rey were finer than Kashan's, which seems to have declined in the wake of its fame and increased production. In Rey and Takh-Solomon, 12-13th century AD, Glass-Earthenware were mostly decorated with mold-pressed floral patterns.

Unfortunately, artists have withheld their production secrets from others than their family members and refrained from recording anywhere. This knowledge was only transmitted from father to son and no documents, concerning these patterns' geometric rules and execution techniques, are therefore available.