Daily Life Ornamented: the Medieval Persian City of Rayy July 28, 2007

'Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy' features the distinctive artistic traditions of Rayy, an Islamic city located at today's Tehran, renowned for its famous glazed ceramics and its prominent position at the crossroads of major trade routes in Iran. This little-known but important collection of ceramics dating to the 12th to the 14th centuries AD was excavated by Erich Schmidt in the 1930s. Most of the approximately forty-five objects have never before been exhibited.