IRAN ART EXHIBITION: PERSIAN POTTERY IN ANCIENT TIMES IN IRAN Some 3,000 years ago, in the area south of the Caspian Sea in what is now modern Iran, craftsmen developed a distinctive type of pottery. This small installation features some of the outstanding treasures in the Sackler Gallery’s collection of ancient Iranian ceramics. It celebrates […]
IRAN ART EXHIBITION: POTTERY AND CERAMIC MAKING IN IRAN The history of Persian pottery dates back to the 7th millennium BCE, the early Neolithic Age. It was the age of the development of agriculture and mankind learned that by cooking clay he can make cooking utensils and that is when the art of pottery was […]