id:			163512
accession number:	2004.70
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.70
updated:		2023-04-01 11:07:51.102000

Tile Spandrel with Floral Sprays, c. 1570–75. Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman period (1299–1922). Fritware with red slip and underglaze design; overall: 76 x 29.9 x 2.5 cm (29 15/16 x 11 3/4 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2004.70

title:				Tile Spandrel with Floral Sprays
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creation date:			c. 1570–75
creation date earliest:		1565
creation date latest:		1580
current location:		116 Islamic
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman period (1299–1922)
technique:	Fritware with red slip and underglaze design
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 76 x 29.9 x 2.5 cm (29 15/16 x 11 3/4 x 1 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-05-21T04:00:00
	<i>Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Momtaz Islamic Art, London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-2004
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2004-
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fun fact:
The tile's radiant floral sprays evoke eternal spring and visions of paradise.

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wall description:
This spandrel, along with its missing right half, would have formed a decorative archway over a niche, window, or door. It reveals the artistic and technical height achieved in Iznik, a town in northwest Turkey. Craftspeople from Iznik were renowned for their production of brilliantly colored tiles for the Ottoman sultans, rulers of one of the most powerful empires in history. The intense red on this spandrel was a technical triumph achieved with a thick iron-rich clay slip. Here, it forms red roses intertwined with leaves and other blossoms.
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RELATED WORKS

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.70/2004.70_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.70/2004.70_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.70/2004.70_full.tif