Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, potter, Syria, Damascus
Production
Note:
Syrian, Damascus
Category:
fritware (stonepaste)
Name(s):
tile
Islamic pottery; category
Iznik; category
Other Name:
Part of tile panel (C.4-1928)
Date:
1600 — 1700
School/Style:
Ottoman
Period:
17th Century
Description:
fritware, mould made, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a colourless glaze.
Forms part of a panel comprising twenty three tiles. A small, irregular chip joins with larger fragment (C.4U-1928) probably forms part of a 5th row of the panel that includes larger tiles (C.4E-1928, C.4F-1928), border fragments (C.4T-1928, C.4L-1928) and group of fragments (C.4V-1928, and C.4Q-1928).
Upper surface: a blue and turquoise tendril is outlined in black.
Lower surface: undecorated
Technique(s):
moulding; whole
painting underglaze; upper surface; in blue and turquoise with black outlines
glazing (coating); upper surface; colourless
Material(s):
fritware; whole
pigment; upper surface; in blue and turquoise with black outlines
glaze; upper surface; colourless
Technique
Description:
fritware, mould made, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a colourless glaze
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 3, cm
width, whole, 1.5, cm
depth, whole, 2, cm
weight, whole, 7, 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):
Part Of:
Accession:
Object Number: C.4W-1928
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 28912; input: 2001-05-18; modified: 2012-12-06)
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Identifier:
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