IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17563
accession number:	C.2096-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 9 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, mould made, painted dark red, brown, blue, turquoise and yellow with brown outlines under (or in) a white glaze.
Shape: panel comprises fifty tiles arranged in ten rows of five roughly square tiles, forming a rectangle framed in light wood.
Upper surface: on the upper half of the panel, a mosque structure flanked by minarets is framed within a pointed archway whose spandrels contain a scrolling floral pattern and vases reserved in blue. On the lower half of the panel two floral sprays, springing from mounted vases and incorporating madorlas (oval medallions), are framed within a colonnade topped by lobbed archways, whose spandrels again contain scrolling floral patterns reserved in blue. Two of the tiles, on the fourth row far right and on the tenth row extreme left, do not belong in the panel but must have been inserted to replace missing examples 
Lower surface: not visible due to wall hanging
title:	tile panel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From a house in Tunis; sold to Boccara père, Souk des Femmes, Tunisia; sold for £18.0.0 in January 2006 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17563


SUBJECTS
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minaret
minaret



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, mould made, painted dark red, brown, blue, turquoise and yellow with brown outlines under (or in) a white glaze
moudling

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 151.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 82.7



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Qallaline Tile Panels: Tile Pictures in North Africa
The Art of the Islamic Tile
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