Set of forty-eight tiles displaying vases and cypress trees amid flowers

Details

• Title

  Set of forty-eight tiles displaying vases and cypress trees amid flowers

• Associated place

  Asia › Syria (place of creation)

• Date

  17th century (1601 - 1700)
  Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)

• Material and technique

  fritware, with polychrome underglaze painting, mounted together in a hardwood frame

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware

• Technique index

  covered › coated › painted;

  glazed

• Object type

  architecture › tile

• Dimensions

  with frame 147 x 195 x 6 cm (height x width x depth)
  each tile 23.5 x 23.5 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  48

• Credit line

  Presented by Bethnal Green Museum, 1977.

• Museum location

  First floor | Gallery 31 | Islamic Middle East

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1977.15

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