Tile Panel
1560-90 (made)
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| Place of origin |
In the Middle East, tilework was originally developed as a decorative cladding for brick structures. After 1400 its use spread to Turkey, where tiles were applied to stone buildings using mortar. The most accomplished type had colourful designs painted on a brilliant white ground. Tiles from the Turkish city of Iznik soon became very popular. They were even applied to wooden structures such as royal barges where mortar could not be used. A hole was bored through the centre of each tile, which was held in place by a pin with a decorative head.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 4 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, polychrome underglaze painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Panel of four tiles of glazed grey fritware, painted in colours on a white slip, Iznik, Turkey, 1560-90. |
| Physical description | Panel of four tiles of glazed grey fritware, painted in colours on a white slip. A T-shaped panel, forming part of a spandrel of a niche, painted in red, green and blue outlined in olive-green. A wide band along the top and one of the lower corners are decorated with large conventional flowers on foliated stems interlaced with Chinese cloud ornament on a blue ground. The remainder is filled with scrolled arabesques on a turquoise-blue ground. |
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| Object history | Bought from the Myers Collection. |
| Production | register |
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| Summary | In the Middle East, tilework was originally developed as a decorative cladding for brick structures. After 1400 its use spread to Turkey, where tiles were applied to stone buildings using mortar. The most accomplished type had colourful designs painted on a brilliant white ground. Tiles from the Turkish city of Iznik soon became very popular. They were even applied to wooden structures such as royal barges where mortar could not be used. A hole was bored through the centre of each tile, which was held in place by a pin with a decorative head. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 431 to C-1900 |
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| Record created | March 18, 2009 |
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