Ceramic Techniques ---> Fatimid's style
  Fatimid's style- Egypt (10-11-12 c.)

The right hall of the entrance (Ground floor ) is allocated to exhibit many master pieces of :  plates, jars, ollas (jars) opening feltiration, vessels bottom and oil lamps.

The importance of this gallery is related to luster Ceramics which is considered one of the unique Islamic inventions and never used in the pre-Islamic civilization

That luster ceramics can be classified into two periods, the early and the later phase. In the first one the ceramist “Mousallam Ibn Aldahan” is well known, while “Saad” is in the second. The former school used smoking in giving the piece in the second burning its metalic sheen’ while the latest used a developed compound of oxides metal including the elements of deoxidisation and burn the products in an oxide atmosphere according to the progress of chemistry.

  By that the ceramists adds the deoxidising element in the oily mixture to paint over the opaque metallic glaze. In Mousallam’s school they used the golden colors begin from light to dark yellow and also the copper colors. On the other hand’ Saad’s one was distinguished with the olive color on a copper or turquoise colors as a background.

Through that stage ceramists may use two colors over the glaze. Both schools are varied in their decorations, they include human, animals, birds, fish, plants, arabesques and geometric formations.

In addition to the luster metallic glaze, there was a lot of ceramics’styles including the Bas- relief decoration under the glaze.

The Fatimid ceramists characterized by elegant sense, accuracy and perfect imagination which is shown in ollas’ opining feltriation  . Mostly – they have been made of pottery- the aim was to satisfy the drinking person in addition to sub-functions as to avoid insects while drinking. One of the most famous ones is exhibited in “ Museum of Islamic Ceramics” It is a picture of peacock and made in the Fatimid era.

The simplest style of ceramic was entitled  “Al Fayoum Ceramic” It has lines, dots and simple drawing using white, yellow, green, and brown  colors. This kind is suggested to be of the 12th century imitating imported ceramics. Although some Archeologists stated that there was no colored ceramics at the Islamic age, and what is suggested to be founded in Al Fayoum was from excavations of Al Fustat.