Kacker uses text in a way that establishes a connection with the viewer at a level other than the purely visual and he has credited his short apprenticeship with lusterware master, Alan Caiger Smith of Aldermaston Pottery, UK, for his use of the flat brush in making script and calligraphic embellishment on his ceramics.
Ceramics found by the archaeologists at Al-Rabadha encompassed all types of early Abbasid wares, including large blue glazed alkaline glazed jars, gold lusterware plates and other vessels, blue and white wares and splashwares of the finest character, the latter the product of the most advanced kilns of 3rdC.
Caption: 'Lusterware,' a watercolor by Mary Bohn, is part of a special art exhibit on display through September at Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth.