An Inspirational Guide to Arabic Design, Creativity and Culture
Table Of Content Design time History of Arabic Design: Lovely Half Moon Style With Gaps! Another glass object in the collection, a cosmetic container in the form of a bottle mounted on the back of a horse or a donkey, cleverly recasts a type of late Roman glass vessel while retaining the same technique and function (fig. 3). Like their late Roman prototypes, vessels of this type are often elaborately decorated with trailed or applied glass thread. Characteristic of this transitional period is a stucco relief plaque, depicting a king hunting on horseback, from a small palace in northern Iran, datable to the end of the seventh or the first half of the eighth century (fig. 1). The technique (the relief decoration was produced in a mold), style (for example, the rigidity of the figures despite their implied movement), and form of this object, as well as its subject matter, belong to the tradition of Sasanian art. Design time For example, the English words cotton and mohair derive f...