Current Location: Gallery 33 (Near Eastern/Islamic)
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unknown
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Description
Fritware, painted in blue green and black under a clear glaze and framed in ebonised wood.
Fritware, mould made, painted (possibly on a white slip) in blue, green and black under a clear glaze and framed in ebonised wood.
Shape: a panel of ten square tiles set in a rectangular ebonised frame made in sections and lobed on top edge
Upper surface: all decoration is outlined in black, painted in green or blue and reserved in blue. In the centre, a white flower pot with flaring base, split palmette handles and a double mouth is painted with saz leaves and flowers. Emanating from this pot, a floral bouquet of tulips and carnations radiates over the upper half of the panel. The vase is flanked by cypress trees springing from grassy tufts along with further saz leaves and flowers. A cross-hatch boarder is just visible, obscured by the frame at the top right hand corner. The tiles are enclosed by a ebonised wood frame, gilded with key hole and leaf shapes, on the top edge and inscribed on the bottom edge.
Lower surface: not visible due to plaster, wood and card backing.
Notes
History note: Christie's, 26th February, 1909, lot 104
Legal notes
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Depth: 8 cm
Height: 122 cm
Width: 92 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1909)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early
Circa
1550
CE
-
1650
CE
School or Style
Ottoman
Components of the work
Frame
composed of
wood
( ebonised)
gilt
Upper Surface
composed of
pigments
( green, blue, black)
slip
( possibly, white)
glaze
( trasnparent)
Backing
composed of
card
plaster
Single Tile
Height 26 cm
Width 27 cm
Materials used in production
Fritware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Fritware, painted in blue green and black under a clear glaze and framed in ebonised wood.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: inscribed in white
- Text: ‘PANEL OF DAMASCUS TILES 16TH - 17TH CENT. GIVEN BY THE FRIENDS OF THE FITZWILLIAM, 1909’
- Location: Bottom edge of frame
- Method of creation: Hand painted
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
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Catalogue of Specimens Illustrative of Persian and Arab Art
page(s): p. 42
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The Collection of Early Stained Glass of W. Jerdone Braikenridge Esq. (Deceased). Limoges Enamels (The Property of a Lady), Porcelain and Faience, Objects of Art, Old French & English (From Private Sources) and Renaissance & Other Furniture of Edward Steinkopff (Deceased; late of 47 Berkeley Square, W.), Friday February 26, 1909, London.
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Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, First Annual Report, for the Year 1910
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I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum
page(s): p. 72
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A Guide to the Collection of Tiles
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The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent
page(s): pp. 253
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Iznik : the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey
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The Art of the Islamic Tile
page(s): pp. 192, 212-221
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Louças Iznik Pottery
page(s): p. 130
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Iznik, Ottoman ceramics and tiles
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.5-1909
Primary reference Number: 17525
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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