Publication Place
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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Subject
Painted flint underglaze.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
العلو: 71 سم؛ العرض: 142 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
1598 B
Record ID
object;ISL;pt;Mus01_A;49;ar
Library Location
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Notes
A panel of azulejos (Moroccan faience, azulejos) decorated with blue, turquoise, green and red. The central composition is surrounded by coils of abstract clouds that form a serpentine band surrounding, within a trefoil frame, a lotus flower. Spiral branches extend from the central shape towards leaves, flower buds and hatayi (Chinese-inspired wreaths). Although the zellij panels in Ottoman architecture are intended to decorate interior spaces, the source of this panel has not yet been confirmed, but it is certain that it belongs to a group of twelve front panels, almost identical, that used to decorate a building that was constructed by order of Pyal Pasha, the president of the emirate and one of the close associates of Sultan Selim II. But a doubt remains regarding the purpose of the building: Was it a mosque or a palace? According to popular opinion, these paintings were taken from the Bayalpaşa Mosque (Istanbul), which was built by Sinan in the year 980-981 AH / 1573-1574 AD, which is confirmed by the disappearance of all the panels on the front of the building and the preservation of the mihrab alone.
Sample Text
Maria Queiroz Ribeiro “Zellige (faience) panel in the form of a forehead panel” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;pt;Mus01_A;49;ar
