Tile

Description

Rectangular tile of stonepaste fritware with a transparent alkaline glaze, painted with a underglaze design of interlacing white arabesques with black outlines on a turquoise ground with details in red slip: Turkey, Isnik, late 10th century AH / late 16th century AD

Museum reference

A.1967.414

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tile

Production information

Iznik, Turkey, West Asia

Date

Late 16th century
Late 10th century AH

Style / Culture

Ottoman

Materials

Stonepaste fritware

Physical description

Composite white paste

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Discover Islamic Art (01 Dec 2005)
  World Wide Web

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5 »
window on the world