Tile Panel
1152/1739-40 (made)
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A similar tile panel is in situ in the shrine of Muhly al-Din Ibn al Arabi in the Salahieh quarter of Damascus, built in 1518 by Sultan Selim I and restored in the 18th century. It has been suggested that the arches, minarets and hanging lamps may be a schematised version of the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware with underglaze polychrome painting |
| Brief description | Cer, Syria, Ottoman, Polychrome - Tile panel comprising nine tiles, fritware, painted in underglaze colours with a mosque interior; Damascus (Syria), dated AH 1152, equivalent to AD 1739-40. |
| Physical description | Tile panel (nine) for a niche, fritware, painted in underglaze blue, green and black with a central vase surmounted by an openwork rosette with inscriptions; on either side is a hanging lamp within an arched compartment, along the top and bottom run ornamental borders, dated by inscription AH 1102 (AD 1690-1) or AH 1152 (AD 1739-40). |
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| Object history | Bought by Henry Wallis in Cairo in 1890. There is a similar tile in the British Museum and another in the V&A (1215-1883). |
| Summary | A similar tile panel is in situ in the shrine of Muhly al-Din Ibn al Arabi in the Salahieh quarter of Damascus, built in 1518 by Sultan Selim I and restored in the 18th century. It has been suggested that the arches, minarets and hanging lamps may be a schematised version of the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina. |
| Bibliographic reference | A similar panel dated 1150AH /1737-8 AD is illustrated in M.S.Dimand, Dated Specimens of Mohammedan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Part 1, Metropolitan Museum Studies,, Vol. 1, No.1, November 1928, p. 99-113, fig. 4. |
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| Accession number | 258-1891 |
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| Record created | December 23, 2008 |
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