Tile Panel

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Tile Panel

Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman, last quarter of 16th century
Ceramics
Fritware, underglaze-painted
overall: 29 1/2 x 52 3/4 in. (74.93 x 133.985 cm) Weight: 80 lb. (36.3 kg)
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky (M.73.5.6)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

From the time of the construction of the great mosque complex of Sultan Süleyman in Istanbul (1550–57) onward, inscribed tiles made in Iznik increasingly came to embellish Ottoman religious monuments....
From the time of the construction of the great mosque complex of Sultan Süleyman in Istanbul (1550–57) onward, inscribed tiles made in Iznik increasingly came to embellish Ottoman religious monuments. Stencils were used to transfer the designs of both epigraphic and pictorial tile compositions; however, this inscription seems not to have been conceived by one of the many professional calligraphers who flourished under the Ottomans. Rather it may be the work of a highly proficient amateur. The Arabic text—"This world is the sowing ground of the next [world]"—appears to be an unsound hadith, probably a paraphrase of a verse from the Qur’an (42:20).
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Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Donahue, Kenneth.  X, a Decade of Collecting:  1965-1975.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1975.
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