IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17532 accession number: C.24-1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 4 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, painted in blue, black green and turquoise under a colourless glaze Shape: roughly square with slightly bevelled edges Upper surface: all decoration is painted in polychrome. Occupying the centre of the tile, floral sprays incorporating lotus and stylised saz leaves are overlain with festooned mandorlas containing split leaf plamette arabseques. Echoing this decoration, along the left side a border, between lines of turquoise, a meandering, split palmette pattern is highlighted with turquoise and reserved in blue. Underside: undecorated, thin layer of plaster adhered in patches. object type: fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie's, 16th-17th March 1911, Lot 145. Sold as part of a lot to Riches for 8.5 guineas LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: T.H. Riches collection creditline: Given by T. H. Riches STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17532 SUBJECTS ------------------- mandorla palmettes mandorla palmettes TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, painted in blue, black green and turquoise under a colourless glaze moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1560 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1560 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 2.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.8 dimension: Weight units: g value: 3798 dimension: Width units: cm value: 30 CITATIONS -------- The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq. Iznik : the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey The Art of the Islamic Tile Iznik, Ottoman ceramics and tiles Iznik Pottery and Tiles: In the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_24_1911.jpg height: 758 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_24_1911.jpg height: 499 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_24_1911.jpg height: 758 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_24_1911.jpg height: 249 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/624/796/large_C_24_1911_dc1.jpg height: 1017 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/624/796/mid_C_24_1911_dc1.jpg height: 496 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/624/796/C_24_1911_dc1.jpg height: 3798 pixels width: 3825 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/624/796/preview_C_24_1911_dc1.jpg height: 248 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/624/796/C_24_1911_dc1.ptif height: 3798 pixels width: 3825 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/661/919/large_C_24_1911_mas.jpg height: 1262 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/661/919/mid_C_24_1911_mas.jpg height: 616 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/661/919/C_24_1911_mas.jpg height: 4939 pixels width: 4008 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/661/919/preview_C_24_1911_mas.jpg height: 308 pixels width: 250 pixels