Description
Porcelain was an item of prestige at Muslim royal courts, collected, gifted and displayed. Renowned for its physical properties of having a pure white body, being harder than earthenware, and its translucence, porcelain was desired in the Muslim world from the ninth century onwards. In the Persianate world, the influx of porcelain and other fine Chinese wares significantly increased after the Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century.