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.)
<JG, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 14.63 | 100% | 46% | 0% |
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |