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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tile Panel

1550-1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panel of seven tiles. Four tiles are of glazed fritware painted in colours on a white slip. The remainder are restored in plaster. The panel bears the Arabic inscription in Naskhy characters 'In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful'. The inscription is reserved in white on a dark red ground, which is decorated with flowers and leaves on scrolling stems in dark blue and turquoise-blue. The whole design is outlined in black and at each end of the panel is a white border.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 7 parts.

  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Panel, four glazed fritware tiles polychome painted,Turkey (Iznik), 1550-1600; and the remainder are restored in plaster
Physical description
Panel of seven tiles. Four tiles are of glazed fritware painted in colours on a white slip. The remainder are restored in plaster. The panel bears the Arabic inscription in Naskhy characters 'In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful'. The inscription is reserved in white on a dark red ground, which is decorated with flowers and leaves on scrolling stems in dark blue and turquoise-blue. The whole design is outlined in black and at each end of the panel is a white border.
Dimensions
  • Height: 48.3cm
  • Length: 94.6cm
Style
Object history
Bought from the Myers Collection.
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
429:1 to 7-1900

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Record createdMarch 18, 2009
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