3. Incising (2):

 

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but the Teaching Film from which they are taken - "Making
Lustre Pottery with Alan Caiger-Smith" - is available to buy
in the Ashmolean Museum Shop, or online at:
http://islamicceramics.ashmolean.org/video-info.htm

 

Alan Caiger-Smith demonstrates the technique of incising through the dried lustre pigment to enhance the decoration: here he creates fishes where before there were blobs of pigment.

 

 

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