Tile Panel

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Artist: Unknown artist
Date: second half 16th century
Medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
Dimensions: H. 45 1/2 in. (115.6 cm) W. 45 1/2 in. (115.6 cm) D. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) with tabs Wt. 144 lbs. (65.3 kg)
Origin: Turkey
Department: Islamic Art
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #C6A98A · 34%

Raw Walnut · Brown family · #6E3D27 · 17%

Aubergine Glaze · Purple family · #28244A · 13%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #911B0B · 11%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #896650 · 7%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #E0C4A3 · 6%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #A38065 · 3%

Pine Needle · Green family · #2C5C4C · 3%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #311800 · 3%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #CD9A70 · 1%

Weathered Brick · Orange family · #B1603C · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #907270 · <1%

Faded Indigo · Blue family · #636587 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #949B7C · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #9C9289 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #030113 · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #9B8D98 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #1E1665 · <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 Visual · 99%

Repeated flowers, leaves, curling stems, and stylized vegetal motifs are visible throughout the central field and border.

Patterns Visual · 99%

The surface is organized as a continuous ornamental repeat across a regular modular arrangement of tiles.
Symmetrical Visual · 97%

The square format, repeated border units, and ordered central field create a strongly balanced and near-symmetrical composition.
Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 97%

The decoration uses saturated red, deep blue, turquoise, and green in strong contrast with a pale ground.
Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%

Floral, foliate, and scrolling ornament densely covers the surface with relatively little undecorated area.
Arabesque/Scroll Visual · 94%

Flowing stems and curling vegetal contours are especially prominent in the enclosing border and throughout the patterned field.

Glass and Ceramics Metadata · 96%

The listed medium is stonepaste with polychrome painted decoration under transparent glaze, corresponding to a ceramic-based technique.

16th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to the second half of the sixteenth century.

Ceramic Both · 99%

The image shows a glazed painted tile panel, and the catalog identifies the medium as stonepaste with polychrome painting under transparent glaze.

Islamic Art and Architecture Metadata · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the object as a Tile Panel from Turkey in its Department of Islamic Art.

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