Last week, I went to the Oxford with my classmates, and we visited the Ashmolean Museum. I saw a lot of collections there. I was most interested in the pottery of Islamic middle east.
When I came into the museum，I saw a lot of collections which is about pottery. these pottery from different countries and ages. they had different modeling, pattern and colour. My favorite is a pane of tiles and a pair of doors with geometric illustrations. The pane tiles are between 1400 and 1430, from Syria, and the whole piece is blue and white. There are decorative patterns of plants and geometrics, simple and not conflicting, and the two elements are perfectly blended. The door was made in Egypt, and it was made earlier than pane, it using wood, ivory carvings and ebony inlays with elements of the cross. It may indicate that these may belong to a church.
I think that the patterns of these ancient tiles have a great effect on modern decoration. A large part of the modern decorative style elements are the ancient decorative patterns borrowed from it, and many years ago, people could design such patterns, at that time human Design ability was excellent.
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