Keywords: Hexagonal Iznik tile with ducks V&A 1680-1892.jpg Hexagonal tile with ducks painted in cobalt blue and turquoise place of creation Iznik Turkey 1525-1550 but note below implies a date of 1540-1546 Fritware/stonepaste with underglaze decoration in cobalt blue and turquoise Width 27 9 cm Institution Victoria and Albert Museum Atasoy Nurhan; Raby Julian 1989 Iznik The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey London Alexandra Press ISBN 978-1-85669-054-6 </br> cite journal Lane Arthur 1957 The Ottoman Pottery of Isnik Ars Orientalis 2 247 “281 https //www jstor org/stable/4629039 seq 1 page_scan_tab_contents JSTOR 4629039<br>Porter Venetia 1995 Islamic Tiles London British Museum Press ISBN 978-0-7141-1456-9 object history credit line The tile is illustrated in B W in Lane 1957 p 266 and fig 36 This tile is one of 39 tiles or tile fragments in the V A Museum that the museum believes come from the Hayreddin bathhouse Cinili Hamam or Tiled bathhouse located on Itfaiye Street in Istanbul This is explained in the entry for another tile with http //collections vam ac uk/item/O224115/tile/ Inv no 961-1892 The bathhouse was built by Barbaros Hayreddin PaÅŸa in 1540-1546 Barbarossa died in 1546 The building was sold off in the 19th century and the remaining tiles removed and sold The V A has another similar tile http //collections vam ac uk/item/O225308/tile-unknown/ Accession number CIRC 30-1953 There are identical tiles in the Harvard Museums http //www harvardartmuseums org/collections/object/316973 Accession number 9 2006 and the British Museum http //www britishmuseum org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details aspx objectId 238595 partId 1 Accession number 1892 0613 69 The example in the British Museum is illustrated in Porter 1995 p 105 fig 93 and Atasoy Raby 1989 p 134 fig 225 in B W There are also two identical tiles in the Leighton House Museum in London that are plastered into the north wall of the central hall accession number http //collections vam ac uk/item/O224585/tile-unknown/ 1680-1892 own photo date 2015 Aa77zz artwork license PD-old-100 photo license other versions Ä°znik ceramics Ottoman art in Victoria and Albert Museum Plant-scroll ornament |