Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1530
Publication Place
Iznik (made) Turkey -
Subject
Leaves Cypress Flowers
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
C.6-1953
Record ID
C.6-1953
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1530
Notes
Tile, fritware body, painted under the glaze in two shades of blue, Turkey (Iznik), 1530s; from the Ãinili Hamam (Tiled Bath-house) in the Zeyrek district of Istanbul.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Fritware Painted
Fiziksel açıklama
Hexagonal tile of fritware (also called stone paste), painted under the glaze in two shades of blue on a white ground. In the centre of the design, a conventionalized cypress tree grows from a clump of leaves in the so-called saz style, with veins appearing as white against the dark-blue ground. The cypress tree has a light-blue trunk and light-blue and white scale-like leaves outlined in dark blue. There is a break in the leaf pattern running up most of the tree's height, creating an irregular white line, suggesting that one stencil was used for both halves of the design. Either side of the tree, and shown growing from the same clump of leaves, is a long saz -style leaf, on which a chain of small five-petal rosettes and tiny leaves has been superimposed, appearing as white against the light-blue ground, and with outlines in dark-blue. Either side of the light-blue leaves, and also shown growing from the same clump of leaves, is a light-blue stem of dark-blue hyacinth flowers. The design had no border.
Üslup
Ottoman
