Thread by @BaytAlFann

İznik is a town in northwestern Turkey, renowned for its Ottoman-era hand painted ceramics & tiles.

İznik tiles decorated walls of shrines, mosques & palaces. Many were taken & put in museums & private collections across the globe.

A thread on exquisite İznik tiles in museums…

Two Iznik Tiles with Continuous Floral Pattern
Ottoman dynasty (1299–1923), c.1560

Pattern is typical of the ‘saz style’ a term that derives from the words saz kalem, or “reed pen.” The style developed in album drawings in black ink during second half of 16thc.

@artinstitutechi

Iznik tile, 1560-1600, Ottoman, Turkey

Tile-work was normally used to provide rich splashes of colour on building exteriors, or to emphasise important areas of the interiors.

@V_and_A

Iznik Square border tile
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)

@AshmoleanMuseum

Iznik tile, Turkey, 16th Ottoman

Decorated with confronted parrots framed by a dense border of flowers. The emerald green was used for the first time in 1566/7 on the tiles of the mausoleum of Suleyman the Magnificent

@TheBenakiMuseum

Iznik tile, (1600 - 1700) Ottoman, Turkey

@MuseeLouvre

Iznik Wall Tiles - part of a set of four
Turkey, Ottoman, 1600s

@ClevelandArt

Iznik tile, 16th c. Ottoman
Turkey: Marmara Region: Bursa

Design of winged sausages alternating with heart-shaped lotus medallions and undulating scroll of prunus blossom,roses.

@britishmuseum

Iznik tiles, 1560, Ottoman, Turkey

These tiles are part of a repeat-pattern composition, an example of which adorns the walls of the sixteenth-century Rüstem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul.

@AgaKhanMuseum

Iznik tile Unknown maker/s, Turkey 1575-1600 CE Buff coloured fritware, coated in a white slip and painted with red, green, blue and black glaze.

@FitzMuseum_UK

Iznik tile, Turkey (Iznik), late 16th century Ottoman

Square glazed grey earthenware tile decorated in polychrome with a design of a pheasant perched on a flowering tree, within a lobed panel with arabesques at the corners

@V_and_A

Iznik tile, Turkey, 16th, Ottoman

The emerald green was used for the first time in 1566/7 on the tiles of the mausoleum of Suleyman the Magnificent

@smithsonian

Iznik tile Unknown maker/s, Turkey 1575-1600 CE Buff coloured fritware, coated in a white slip and painted with red, green, blue and black glaze.

@FitzMuseum_UK

Iznik tiles, A Panel of Four
Turkey, Iznik, 1580s, Ottoman
Ceramics

@LACMA

Iznik tile
About 1575
Ottoman, Turkey

@gardnermuseum

Iznik tile
Late 16th century
Ottoman, Turkey

@NtlMuseumsScot

Iznik tile panel, 1580, Ottoman, Turkey

These tiles are from the baths at the mosque of Eyüp Ansari in Istanbul.

@V_and_A

Iznik tile (1560 - 1580), Ottoman, Turkey

@MuseeLouvre

Iznik tile
1575-1600, Ottoman
Turkey: Marmara Region: Bursa

@britishmuseum

Iznik tile
Late 16th century
Ottoman, Turkey

@NtlMuseumsScot

Iznik Tile panel, from Iznik, Turkey, Ottoman, 1590-1610

@BM_AG

Iznik tile
late 16th century (Early Modern) Ottoman

@walters_museum

Iznik tile, Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman, circa 1580-90
Ceramics

@LACMA

Iznik tile (1600-1700), Ottoman, Turkey

Yavuz Sultan Selim Cami Mosque

@MuseeLouvre

Iznik calligraphic tile, Ottoman Turkey, CIRCA 1570

Sold for GBP £90,000 at auction in 2020

@ChristiesInc

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