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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Turkey (produced)

Tile, hexagonal, fritware body, painted in black under a turquoise glaze with a combination of scrolling patterns, one knotted and set with split palmettes, the other bearing lotus blossoms, leaves and rosettes

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Categories	Ceramics Tiles
Object type	Tile
Materials and techniques	Fritware, painted in black under a turquoise glaze Fritware Painted Glazed
Brief description	Tile, hexagonal, fritware painted in black under a turquoise glaze, Ottoman empire, 16th century
Physical description	Tile, hexagonal, fritware body, painted in black under a turquoise glaze with a combination of scrolling patterns, one knotted and set with split palmettes, the other bearing lotus blossoms, leaves and rosettes
Dimensions	Width: 19.7cm
Style	Ottoman
Production	Register
Subjects depicted	Floral Patterns Scrolling Foliage
Bibliographic references	Arthur Lane, A Guide to the Collection of Tiles, London, 1939, p.19 and pl.13b: rejects the earlier attribution to Damascus and ascribes to Iznik, 1530-1540. Arthur Millner, Damascus Tiles, Munich, 2015, fig.6.121: "Hexagonal tile, with "stencilled" lotus design. This is described as Iznik and is recorded as coming "from Bursa" in Western Anatolia, but the design is very close to the black-painted borders in Aleppo (see fig. 4.83), so one would expect a Syrian or perhaps Jerusalem provenance. It relates to the group of square tiles on the opposite page [= figs. 6.124 to 6.126]. Probably Ottoman Syria, Aleppo, mid 16th century". The re-attribution to Aleppo is not convincing. The tiles in figs 6.124 to 6.126 do have a simpler version of the same design, which is executed relatively competently, and the painting on these tiles is close to that of the border tile from Aleppo (fig. 4.83), but the painting style on these examples is quite different from that on the V&A tile, which is finer but less certain.
Collection	Middle East Section
Accession number	909-1894

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Record created	April 16, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O225011/tile-unknown/

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