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Description: Border tile. Off-white earthenware, the upper surface covered with an opaque white slip or glaze, painted in turquoise, green and sealing-wax red and black under a clear glaze. Oblong with bevelled edges. Interlacing stems bearing saz and smaller, smooth-edged leaves and flowers; at each end, half of an arabesque-filled medallion; blue ground.
Production Notes: Turkish, Isnik
Dimensions: height: (whole): 15.8 cm, length: (whole): 25.0 cm
Date: 1570 to 1600

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Maker/s: Unknown Description: Border tile. Off-white earthenware, the upper surface covered with an opaque white slip or glaze, painted in turquoise, green and sealing-wax red and black under a clear glaze. Oblong with bevelled edges. Interlacing stems bearing saz and smaller, smooth-edged leaves and flowers; at each end, half of an arabesque-filled medallion; blue ground. Production Notes: Turkish, Isnik Dimensions: height: (whole): 15.8 cm, length: (whole): 25.0 cm Date: 1570 to 1600

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Accession Number: OC.180-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 487 pixels
Image width: 760 pixels
Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Filesize: 82.28kB

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