Packet 1: Bonus 7

Answer the following about lustreware ceramics from the Islamic world, for 10 points each.
[10e] Many Islamic lustreware techniques evolved from minā’ī (“MIH-nah-ee”) ware, which used a powder of this material called frit to mimic porcelain. Dale Chihuly mainly creates “blown” works in this medium.
ANSWER: glass [accept blown glass]
[10m] The incorporation of Islamic tin-glazing techniques into maiolica spurred the development of Delftware and this tin-glazed imitation of porcelain. It shares its name with a sintered blue ancient Egyptian ceramic.
ANSWER: faience
[10h] This Persian city, home to the Abū Ṭāher family and Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad, so dominated the minā’ī industry that its name became a Farsi synonym for tiles. Maqṣūd, a man from this city, produced the Ardabil Carpet.
ANSWER: Kāshān (Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad is often known as Abū Zayd Kāshānī.)
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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/2026417.50100%75%0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/2026210.00100%0%0%
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026412.50100%25%0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026313.33100%33%0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025410.00100%0%0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/2025516.00100%60%0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025316.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/2025313.33100%33%0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/2025616.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025516.00100%60%0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025215.00100%50%0%