Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Cuerda Seca tile with interlacing motif
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Related Results
Hexagonal tile with interlacing split-palmette and floral pattern
Hexagonal tile with interlacing split-palmette and floral pattern
This hexagonal tile, 9 1/4 inches across, shows a highly developed leaf and tendril decoration on a white slip. The colors, turquoise and dark blue, are characteristic of the earl...
Shaped Tiles in the 'Cuerda Seca' Technique
Shaped Tiles in the 'Cuerda Seca' Technique
Stonepaste; polychrome glaze within black wax resist outlines (cuerda seca technique)...
Tile with Composite Flowers and Saz Leaves
Tile with Composite Flowers and Saz Leaves
Production of ceramic tiles and vessels reached a peak under Ottoman court patronage in the sixteenth century. The court studio provided designs to semi-autonomous workshops in Izn...
Landscript
Landscript
An album leaf, this painting depicts a thatched-roof cottage set in a lush landscape. The cottage sits at the very center of the composition, nestled between a small lake in the fo...
Smocked pencil skirt
Smocked pencil skirt
A patched pencil skirt with the tambal pattern. Tambal means: patch, up or down (Jasper and Mas Pirngadie, 1916: 143). Old examples of tambal batiks show motifs that are strongly ...
Breechcloth
Breechcloth
Breechcloth; probably Yanktonai; 1860-1870Wool, porcupine quills, sinew, metal, horsehair, pigments; 117.5 x 28.5 cm.\RMV 710-9; Herman F.C. ten Kate collection; purchased from tra...
Border tile with a central palmette flanked by interlacing split-palmettes
Border tile with a central palmette flanked by interlacing split-palmettes
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 si...
Smocked pencil skirt
Smocked pencil skirt
The kepala ('head') of this pencil skirt contains a number of flower bouquets, white on red, including carnations. Furthermore butterflies, birds on a branch and small flowers. The...