Tile panel, earthenware, Konya, 1381-2
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1381-2
Four convex tiles from the drum of a dome, made of earthenware covered with coloured glazes. As now arranged, the tiles form a section of a two-dimensional arcade design, outlined in yellow (a full arch flanked by two half-arches). The spandrels of the arches have an interlace design in white on a black ground.
The arches themselves are filled with arabesque decoration: an arrangement of four large half-palmettes formed from smaller half-palmettes rendered in white and dark-blue glazes is shown against a pattern formed from half-palmettes of the smaller size in turquoise and white, all against a dark-blue ground.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 4
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Earthenware under coloured glazes applied in the <i>cuerda seca</i> technique
- Dimensions
- Height: 58.5 cm; Width: 110 cm; Depth: 31 cm
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Konya
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O186235
- Museum object name
- Tile panel
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- 1108:1 to 4-1898
- Museum system number
- O186235
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.