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.

For #TilesOnTuesday here are 24 exquisite examples in museums & collections across the world…

A thread…

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

Pattern 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

2/ 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

3/ Iznik Square border tile
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)

@AshmoleanMuseum

4/ 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

5/ Iznik tile, (1600 - 1700) Ottoman, Turkey

@MuseeLouvre

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

@ClevelandArt

7/ 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

8/ 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

9/ 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

10/ 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

11/ 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

12/ 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

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

@LACMA

14/ Iznik tile
About 1575
Ottoman, Turkey

@gardnermuseum

15/ Iznik tile
Late 16th century
Ottoman, Turkey

@NtlMuseumsScot

16/ Iznik tile panel, 1580, Ottoman, Turkey

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

@V_and_A

17/ Iznik tile (1560 - 1580), Ottoman, Turkey

@MuseeLouvre

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

@britishmuseum

19/ Iznik tile
Late 16th century
Ottoman, Turkey

@NtlMuseumsScot

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

@BM_AG

21/ Iznik tile
late 16th century (Early Modern) Ottoman

@walters_museum

22/ Iznik tile (1600-1700), Ottoman, Turkey

Yavuz Sultan Selim Cami Mosque

@MuseeLouvre

23/ Iznik calligraphic tile, Ottoman Turkey, CIRCA 1570

Sold for GBP £90,000 at auction in 2020

@ChristiesInc

24/ Recently, this highly rare Iznik tile circa 1575, depicting the birds of paradise, sparked a bidding battle to bring £655,200, more than six times its pre-sale estimate @Sothebys

#SothebysMiddleEast