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
fritware, mould made, painted in blue, turquoise, green and black under a colourless glaze.
Forms part of a panel comprising twenty three tiles. Border fragment cut from a larger tile. Abuts large tile C.4J-1928 and smaller section C.4R-1948 and forms part of the 2nd row of five tiles, comprising one other large (C.4D-1928) and another small section (C.4P-1928).
Upper surface: a palmette frieze is painted in blue, green and turquoise with black outlines that form the border section of the tile panel. The start of the pattern that occupies the rest of the panel, incorporating festooned manderolas linked by sinuous stems surrounded by flowers and grape vines, is just visible on the lower edge.
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
Technique(s):
moulding; whole
painting underglaze; upper surface; blue, green and turquoise, with black outlines
glazing (coating); upper surface; colourless
Material(s):
fritware; whole
pigment; upper surface; blue, green and turquoise, with black outlines
glaze; decoration; colourless
Technique
Description:
fritware, mould made, painted in blue, turquoise, green and black under a colourless glaze.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 7.3, cm
width, whole, 4.6, cm
depth, whole, 2.5, cm
weight, whole, 114, 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)
Related Object(s):
C.4D-1928
C.4J-1928
C.4P-1928
C.4R-1928
Part Of:
Accession:
Object Number: C.4S-1928
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 28908; input: 2001-05-18; modified: 2012-12-06)
Permanent
Identifier:
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