Tile Panel

Colors in this work

Artist: Unknown artist
Date: early 17th century
Medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
Dimensions: H. 29 in. (73.7 cm) W. 39 1/4 in. (99.7 cm) D. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) Wt. 98 lbs (44.5 kg) (Wt. includes 17.190.2088)
Origin: Turkey
Department: Islamic Art
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Hammered Copper Brown · Brown family · #725342 · 23%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #E3B98D · 22%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #C1956F · 15%

Slate Night · Black family · #2E2939 · 11%

Pine Needle · Green family · #254D3A · 7%

Lampblack · Black family · #0C0401 · 7%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #462105 · 5%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #8E190F · 4%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #89381A · 3%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #5A5C43 · 2%

Granite Face · Gray family · #766D7E · 1%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #EFA765 · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #A3949F · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #AFBB95 · <1%

Plaster Rose · Pink family · #D2B1AE · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #0F0C40 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #A0BCA6 · <1%

Saffron Blaze · Orange family · #EFA21E · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

10 tags

Flora Both · 100%

The catalog lists Flowers as the subject, while the panel visibly contains numerous stylized blossoms, buds, stems, and leaves.

Patterns Visual · 99%

Repeated floral units, curling stems, and scrolling red contours create a strongly patterned surface across the rectangular panel.
Highly Ornamented Visual · 97%

The composition is densely filled with flowers, foliage, buds, and decorative contours, leaving relatively little unornamented ground.
Symmetrical Visual · 89%

Many floral arrangements are organized around vertical axes and repeated tile divisions, producing recurring mirrored or closely balanced motifs.
Flatness Visual · 92%

The work is a broad, shallow rectangular decorative surface whose effect depends on planar pattern rather than illusionistic spatial depth.

Glass and Ceramics Both · 99%

The catalog classifies the object as a tile panel in ceramics and describes stonepaste with polychrome painting under a transparent glaze; the image shows a unified surface made from multiple glazed ceramic tiles.
Painting Both · 98%

The medium is described as polychrome painted, and the image visibly shows painted floral decoration with outlined petals, leaves, and stems.

17th Century Art Metadata · 98%

The catalog dates the object to the early seventeenth century, with a date range of approximately 1600–1625.

Ceramic Both · 99%

The catalog specifies stonepaste, and the image shows a hard, painted and glazed ceramic surface divided into tile units.

Islamic Art and Architecture Metadata · 86%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work in its Department of Islamic Art and identifies its place of origin as Turkey; no narrower dynastic attribution is supplied.

Unknown artist. Tile Panel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.