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This spandrel, along with its missing right half, would have formed a decorative archway over a niche, window, or door. It reveals the artistic and technical height achieved in Iznik, a town in northwest Turkey. Craftspeople from Iznik were renowned for their production of brilliantly colored tiles for the Ottoman sultans, rulers of one of the most powerful empires in history. The intense red on this spandrel was a technical triumph achieved with a thick iron-rich clay slip. Here, it forms red roses intertwined with leaves and other blossoms.
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163512
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Tile Spandrel with Floral Sprays
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163512
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Tile Spandrel with Floral Sprays
description
This spandrel, along with its missing right half, would have formed a decorative archway over a niche, window, or door. It reveals the artistic and technical height achieved in Iznik, a town in northwest Turkey. Craftspeople from Iznik were renowned for their production of brilliantly colored tiles for the Ottoman sultans, rulers of one of the most powerful empires in history. The intense red on this spandrel was a technical triumph achieved with a thick iron-rich clay slip. Here, it forms red roses intertwined with leaves and other blossoms.
date
c. 1570–75
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79989703
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Ceramic
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1
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Overall: 76 x 29.9 x 2.5 cm (29 15/16 x 11 3/4 x 1 in.)
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Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman period (1299–1922)
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2004.7
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Fritware with red slip and underglaze design
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Tile Spandrel with Floral Sprays, c. 1570–75. Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman period (1299–1922). Fritware with red slip and underglaze design; overall: 76 x 29.9 x 2.5 cm (29 15/16 x 11 3/4 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2004.70
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Islamic Art
didYouKnow
The tile's radiant floral sprays evoke eternal spring and visions of paradise.
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citation
"Major Acquisitions 2000-2005." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 45, no. 6 (July/August 2005): 6–17.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 16–17
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 08:29:30.984000
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163512
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Islamic Art
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Islamic Art
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Fritware with red slip and underglaze design
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