A Panel of Four Tiles

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A Panel of Four Tiles

Turkey, Iznik, 1580s
Ceramics
Fritware, underglaze painted
21 1/16 x 14 9/16 in. (53.50 x 36.99 cm)
The Edwin Binney, 3rd, Collection of Turkish Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.85.237.86a-d)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

At about the same time that the Iznik palette reached its classic form—white, blue, green, and red—the focus of the ceramic industry shifted from tableware to tile work....
At about the same time that the Iznik palette reached its classic form—white, blue, green, and red—the focus of the ceramic industry shifted from tableware to tile work. This shift may have occurred as a result of the massive building projects undertaken by the court beginning in the 1550s during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66) and continuing under his immediate successors. These four tiles come from one such structure in Istanbul, the shrine of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Eyüp Sultan in Turkish), a companion of the Prophet Muhammad who died in an early attempt to conquer the city in the 670s.
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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, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • 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, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • Denny, Walter B.  "Turkish Ceramics and Textiles in the Binney Collection."  Arts of Asia 17, no.6 (November/December 1987): 105-22.
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