Middle ages Georgian artistic ceramics on oriental cultures backgroumd

1. In the middle Ages Ceramics the emergence of new pictorial forms and technical means starts from the early Christian era. With the confluence of Greek-Hellenistic traditions and the forms of West, mainly Iran ceramics the samples have been established, which are found on the territory of those countries, which were under the influence of not only Byzantium, but Imperia and till now it has not been learnt. The symbolic of the decor of the motives (geometric, plant, bird and animals, human images) expressed in scientific literature does not rely only on Christian world point of view. Some of them are related of cosmogony; mythos and beliefs remained among people.
2. Georgian ceramics gets adjusted to that time world leading tendencies and even during middle ages keeps the self-being. Promoting the decorative tendencies gave the advantage to the clay colored samples and finished with the wide spread of glazed techniques. Though in parallel with it the usage of traditional technique of angoba.
3. The massive usage of ceramics in Georgia established many centers (Tbilisi, Rustavi, Dmanisi, Mtskheta, Kaspi, Areshi, Ikalto, Gavazi, Gudarekhi, Ujarma and Many others. The samples of red clay and fiance made graving, painting with salts and angoba on wet ketsi, the opaque colored under-glazed paints (rusts, stone minerals) are formed with different (spotty, ashy) technique and during the times it reaches splendid polychrome.
4. The stylistic features of Georgian Ceramics of Middle Ages much clearly reveal clay monuments' comparative analysis of those countries which are included in the circle of Oriental Cultures.