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| Keywords: Hexagonal Iznik tile V&A 396-1905.jpg Hexagonal blue and white tile decorated in the saz and rosette style place of creation Iznik Turkey 1525-1550 but note below implies a date of 1540-1546 Fritware/stonepaste with underglaze decoration in cobalt blue and turquoise Height 23 2 cm Width 26 7 cm Institution Victoria and Albert Museum Atasoy Nurhan; Raby Julian 1989 Iznik The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey London Alexandra Press ISBN 978-1-85669-054-6 pp 134-135 fig 222 Atasoy and Raby illustrate a rimless shallow dish fig 221 that has an identical design only flipped left to right The use of stencils is discussed on p 59 object history Lot 337 from sale of Henry Willett Collection in Brighton 1905 credit line This tile is one of 39 tiles or tile fragments in the V A Museum that the museum believes come from the Hayreddin bathhouse Cinili Hamam or Tiled bathhouse located on Itfaiye Street in Istanbul This is explained in the entry for another tile with http //collections vam ac uk/item/O224115/tile/ Inv no 961-1892 The bathhouse was built by Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa in 1540-1546 Barbarossa died in 1546 The building was sold off in the 19th century and the remaining tiles removed and sold <br> There are tiles with the same design in other museums Two are in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Inv nos 1877 131-32 and others are in the Leighton House Museum in London Atasoy Raby 1989 p 375 fn 14 There is also an example in the Louvre http //cartelfr louvre fr/cartelfr/visite srv car_not_frame idNotice 35820 langue fr Inv no MAO 936/591 accession number http //collections vam ac uk/item/O205742/tile-unknown/ 396-1905 own photo date 2015 Aa77zz artwork license PD-old-100 photo license other versions İznik ceramics Ottoman art in Victoria and Albert Museum Plant-scroll ornament | ||||
