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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 144, The Headley Trust Gallery

Tile Panel

circa 1570 (made)
Artist/Maker
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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 4 parts.

  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
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, 1570.
Physical description
Tile panel: the allover pattern consists of fine interlacing arabesques painted in two shades of blue, in red and in greenish-black (for the outlines).
Dimensions
  • Height: 485mm
  • Width: 510mm
Styles
Gallery label
  • Tiles fixed with mortar Turkey, Iznik, 1560-90 Fritware painted under the glaze(2009)
  • TILE PANEL Fritware with polychrome underglaze painting TURKEY (made at Iznik); about 1570(1980-)
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.
Collection
Accession number
C.114-1935

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Record createdJune 12, 2000
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