Maker:
Unknown; potter
Category:
fritware (stonepaste)
Name(s):
tile
Islamic pottery; category
Iznik; category
Other Name:
Part of tile panel (C.4-1928)
Date:
circa 1574 — circa 1599
School/Style:
Ottoman
Period:
late 16th Century
Description(s):
fritware painted in four colours under a colourless glaze
fritware, mould made, painted in blue, green, turquoise and black under a colourless glaze.
Forms part of a panel comprising twenty three tiles. A small, rectangular fragment of a larger tile, which joins with larger tile (C.4I-1928) and forms part of the 4th row that includes large tile C.4K-1928, and smaller fragment (C.4O-1928)
Upper surface: painted with a fragmentary section of a stem, tulip, vine leaf and heart shaped motif. These form part of a larger pattern on the principal four rows of the panel comprising a pattern of festooned manderolas linked by sinuous stems, both outlined in black, bordered with turquoise and containing floral sprays reserved in blue with green or turquoise. The surrounding area is filed with vine leaves, bunches of grapes and flowers including tulips painted in blue or green with turquoise highlights.
Lower surface: undecorated except for splashes of glaze and areas of plaster
Production
Place:
Syria, Damascus
Production
Place (legacy):
Damascus, potter, place
Syria, potter, country
Production
Note:
Syrian, Damascus
Technique(s):
moulding; whole
painting underglaze; upper surface; in blue, green, turquoise, with black outlines
glazing (coating); upper surface; colourless
Material(s):
fritware; whole
pigment; upper surface; blue, green, turquoise, with black outlines
glaze; upper suface; colourless
Technique
Description:
fritware, mould made, painted in blue, green, turquoise and black under a colourless glaze
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 26.9, cm
width, whole, 4.2, cm
depth, whole, 2.5, cm
weight, whole, 427, g
Acquisition:
given; 1928-06-04; The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Provenance:
Willaim Morris; Morris & Co.
Notes:
Cf. single tile in British Museum collection, Registration number: 1895,0603.134.a: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=238474&partid=1&searchText=Iznik+tiles%2c+Damascus&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=3 Ref. on Dawishiyya mosque (also known as Mosque of Darwish Pasha) see: http://www.discoverislamicart.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;sy;Mon01;22;en http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=5543 Cf. images of near identical tile panel from the Mosque of Darwish Pasha see: http://archnet.org/library/images/one-image-large.jsp?location_id=7463&image_id=101687
Acquisition Credit:
Given by The Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Documentation:
, The Fitzwilliam Museum1929. Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Twentieth Annual Report, 1928.Cambridge (Cambs.): p. pp. 1, 3
Publ. Illustrated, p. 1 (8), ill. on p. 3 (8), top right
Atasoy, Nurhan. Raby, Julian. Petsopoulos, Yanni. 1989. Iznik : the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey.London: Alexandria Pressp. 121-128
Cf. grape designs on dishes that copy Ming blue and white, catalogue numbers 183-192. Ref. influence of Chinese designs
Porter, Venetia. 1995. Islamic Tiles.London: British Museum Pressp. 92-121
Ref. on Syrian and Turkish tiles
Leeuwen, Richard van. 1999. Waqfs and urban structures: the case of Ottoman Damascus.Leiden: Brill
Ref. on waqf architecture in Damascus (inc. Mosque of Darwish Pasha)
Maury, Charlotte. 2008. Iznik, Ottoman ceramics and tiles.Valencia: Bancaja Foundation
Source Title: Three Empires of Islam: Istanbul, Isfahan, Delhi. Masterpieces of the Louvre Collection(2008)
p. 200-329
Cf. Syrian decorated with festooned mandorlas catalogue number 117 (p. 319). Ref. on Syrian Iznik types
Kafescioǧlu, Çiǧdem. 1999. "In The Image of Rūm": Ottoman Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Aleppo and Damascus.Leiden: Brill
Source Title: Muqarnas 16 (1999) : 70-96
p. 70-96
Ref. on waqf architecture in Damascus and Aleppo (but not inc. Mosque of Darwish Pasha)
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Accession:
Object Number: C.4M-1928
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 28902; input: 2001-05-18; modified: 2012-12-06)
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