L’esportazione e importazione della ceramica nel tardo medioevo: il caso di Venezia

This article gives a brief illustration about the commercial activity that characterized the history of commercial traffic in the late medieval age towards Levant and the Byzantine Empire, but also in the Magreb area, i.e. the Arabic zones of Northern Africa. This article undertakes to give a short and concise research report in order to indicate the pottery typologies widespread during the Crusader and Mameluk periods (between the XII and the XIV centuries), by means of commercial exchanges between the North and the Near East. The importance of oriental pottery in the city of Venice and the exportation of its own pottery is taken as an example with a special emphasis given to one of its surrounding areas, the Holy Land.