Islamic TilesCeramic tiles have been produced for over a thousand years in the heartlands of the Islamic world, from Iraq in the ninth century to Turkey in the nineteenth. Superb color photographs and informative text make this book a treasure for anyone interested in art and design. |
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16th century Abbasid al-Din Anatolia Aq Saray architecture Baghdad blue and turquoise blue-and-white British Museum built Central Asia ceramic Chinese chinoiserie cobalt blue craftsmen cuerda seca tiles Damascus dated AH decorated designs earthenware examples excavated façade fifteenth century floral fourteenth century frieze tiles Fustat glazed bricks half of 16th Il-Khanid inscription Iran Iranian Iraq Isfahan Istanbul Iznik Kashan kilns Kufic Kütahya lotus flowers lustre tiles madrasah Mamluk mihrab minai Mongol monuments mosaic and cuerda mosque motifs moulded Muhammad naskhi opaque white glaze Ottoman overglaze overglaze lustre painted in underglaze palace period Persian polychrome potters produced Qairouan Qur'anic Rectangular tile Safavid Samarqand Samarra Seljuq Shah Shah-i Zindah Shahnameh Shahr-i Sabz shrine star tiles stone-paste style Sultan surah Syria Tabriz Takht-i Sulayman technique thirteenth century tile mosaic tilemakers tilework Timur Timurid tomb Topkapi Saray Turkey turquoise turquoise glaze underglaze underglaze blue underglaze-painted vessels and tiles wares workshops