Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- H. 9 13/16 in. (24.9 cm) W. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm) D. 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)
- Origin
- Turkey
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Flora Both · 99%
Stylized blossoms, leaves, stems, buds, and floral sprays visibly cover the tile; the catalog lists Flowers as the subject.
Visual Qualities
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Patterns Both · 98%
Repeated floral sprays and curling cloud-band forms organize the surface as an ornamental pattern, consistent with the catalog title.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%
Cobalt blue, red-orange, turquoise, and green decoration contrasts strongly with the pale ground.
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Scattered Composition Visual · 92%
Floral sprays and scrolling motifs are distributed across the field with substantial open ground between them, while partial motifs enter from multiple edges.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 94%
The surface is elaborately decorated with numerous outlined flowers, leaves, buds, stems, and curling cloud-like forms.
Medium and Techniques
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Glass and Ceramics Both · 99%
The image shows a glazed, tile-like ceramic surface, while the catalog identifies the medium as stonepaste with polychrome painting under transparent glaze and classifies the work as Ceramics-Tiles.
Time Periods
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16th Century Art Metadata · 97%
The catalog dates the work to circa 1578, within the sixteenth century, with a recorded date range of 1553–1603.
Cultural and Religious Styles
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Islamic Art and Architecture Metadata · 86%
The work is held by the Met’s Department of Islamic Art and is identified as a tile made in Turkey; this supports an Islamic-art catalog context without specifying an original architectural setting.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.