What's the significance of "Splashware"?
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Splashware is earthenware "splashed" with polychrome glazes. It falls under the heading of Islamic art, and was found in places like Nishapur, Iran around the turn of the first and second millennia.
Here are some other examples of this Iranian art form.
It was perhaps inspired by porcelain from Tang China.
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