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Border tile with a central palmette flanked by interlacing split-palmettes
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The red border tile probably comes from the famed Altin Yol, or Golden Way of the Topkapi Palace, which was also decorated during this period. Forming part of a continuous band six inches wide, this tile is again 9 1/2 inches long. It is beveled on two edges, and consists of tendril ornaments in white and blue, while the main color, built out from the slip in thick application, is the famous Iznik red. A bare minimum of dark-blue drawing defines the forms, while it is the colors themselves that predominate.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of John Goelet
Title: Border tile with a central palmette flanked by interlacing split-palmettes
Description:
The red border tile probably comes from the famed Altin Yol, or Golden Way of the Topkapi Palace, which was also decorated during this period.
Forming part of a continuous band six inches wide, this tile is again 9 1/2 inches long.
It is beveled on two edges, and consists of tendril ornaments in white and blue, while the main color, built out from the slip in thick application, is the famous Iznik red.
A bare minimum of dark-blue drawing defines the forms, while it is the colors themselves that predominate.
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