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An image of Maker/s: Unknown
Name: tile
Description : Greyish-white stone-paste (fritware) covered with a wash of white slip and painted in cobalt-blue, copper-green and sealing-wax red with black outlines. On two sides of the tile, a border composed of rosettes, tulips and small saz leaves on waving stems reserved on a sealing wax red ground between narrow green lines. The area within the border is occupied by part of a floral design enclosed by a shaped outline filled with foliate arabesque reserved on a cobalt-blue ground.
Production Place: Iznik (place), Turkey (maker) (country)
Dimensions: height: (whole): 21.8 cm, width: (whole): 21.9 cm
Date: circa 1575 to 1600

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Maker/s: Unknown Name: tile Description : Greyish-white stone-paste (fritware) covered with a wash of white slip and painted in cobalt-blue, copper-green and sealing-wax red with black outlines. On two sides of the tile, a border composed of rosettes, tulips and small saz leaves on waving stems reserved on a sealing wax red ground between narrow green lines. The area within the border is occupied by part of a floral design enclosed by a shaped outline filled with foliate arabesque reserved on a cobalt-blue ground. Production Place: Iznik (place), Turkey (maker) (country) Dimensions: height: (whole): 21.8 cm, width: (whole): 21.9 cm Date: circa 1575 to 1600

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Accession Number: C.41-1924
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 760 pixels
Image width: 755 pixels
Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Filesize: 117.81kB

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