IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17529 accession number: C.22-1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 13 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, painted in blue, turquoise, olive green, purple and black under a colourless glaze Shape: roughly square tile with bevelled edges. Upper surface: all decoration is reserved in blue. Painted on the right hand side, a white tulip with purple dots and purple bunch of grapes on a stem alongside green vine leaves. On the left hand side, turquoise ‘V’ shaped leafy tendrils, containing stylised prunus branches; converge on a festooned mandorla containing a floral spray reserved in green. Underside: undecorated object type: fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie's, 16th-17th March 1911, Lot 145; T.H.Riches LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by T.H. Riches STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17529 SUBJECTS ------------------- vine leaves grapes tendrils flowers foliage vine leaves grapes tendrils flowers foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware covered with white slip and painted in cobalt-blue, green, turquoise, manganese with black outlilnes moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1560 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1560 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 2.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Weight units: g value: 2791 dimension: Width units: cm value: 27 CITATIONS -------- The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq. Islamic Tiles The Art of the Islamic Tile Iznik, Ottoman ceramics and tiles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_22_1911.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_22_1911.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_22_1911.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_22_1911.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels