Visit to the British Museum

Dashing around... assignments to write...

I dipped into the British Museum, to an exhibition of Islamic art.  In the 1400s, it seems, Islamic tile-makers were influenced by Chinese designs, and emulated the simple blue and white they saw on porcelain, traded from the Far East to the eastern Mediterranean.

In Cirebon, North Java, where Muslim traders are said to have brought their faith to Indonesia, Islamic palaces are tiled with ceramics from the Netherlands, in simple blue and white, simple maroon and white.  The tiles have Christian Biblical motifs - Adam and Eve and other stories.

Later, at Wood Wharf, I made a drawing.