Panel Fragment
ca. 1550 (made)
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| Place of origin |
These tiles were part of the refurbishment of the Dome of the Rock ordered by Süleyman the Magnificent from the 1550s onwards. Süleyman employed Iranian craftsmen from Tabriz led by 'Abdal-lah Tabrizi, who used the cuerda seca technique as well as the underglaze painting typical of Iznik of the same period. The same craftsmen went on to produce tiles for the Süleymaniye mosque and madrasah in Damascus in 1554.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, painted with polychrome enamels in the <i>cuerda seca</i> technique |
| Brief description | Tile panel one of two tiles, fritware, cuerda secafor the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, ca. 1550. |
| Physical description | Tile, one of two, painted in cobalt blue, yellow and manganese over a white slip with a floral design and geometrical compartments, the bottom with a double border, in the cuerda seca technique. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Habra Bros, Great Portland Street, London. From the refurbishment of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. |
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| Summary | These tiles were part of the refurbishment of the Dome of the Rock ordered by Süleyman the Magnificent from the 1550s onwards. Süleyman employed Iranian craftsmen from Tabriz led by 'Abdal-lah Tabrizi, who used the cuerda seca technique as well as the underglaze painting typical of Iznik of the same period. The same craftsmen went on to produce tiles for the Süleymaniye mosque and madrasah in Damascus in 1554. |
| Bibliographic reference | Richmond, Ernest Tatham. the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: a description of its structure & decoration, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1924, p. 25, fig. 16 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 682-1897 |
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| Record created | April 16, 2004 |
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