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Hexagonal Tile with Sphinx - Konya (Turkey) - 12th century - MET - Inventory number 1976.245
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| Title |
Hexagonal Tile with Sphinx - Konya (Turkey) - 12th century - MET - Inventory number 1976.245 |
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| Description |
ceramics ; Tiles |
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| Date | circa 1160s–70s | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Stonepaste; over- and underglaze-painted, gilded | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) W. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm) D. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Current location |
Islamic Art, gallery 454 (Egypt and Syria, 10th–16th centuries) |
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| Accession number |
1976.245 |
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| Place of discovery | Konya (Turkey) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history |
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rumi," October 15, 2007–March 5, 2008, no catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs," April 25, 2016–July 24, 2016, no. 20a. |
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| Credit line | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Josephson, 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Seljuk of Rum period (1081-1307) By the early twentieth century, the two-story Konya Köşk had largely fallen into ruin, but architectural fragments speak to its former artistic sophistication and lavish polychrome ornamentation. The luxurious mina˒i ceramic technique of some tiles is reminiscent of that associated with the luxury vessels made in Kashan, Iran. The imagery of real and fantastic animals and scenes of equestrian combat aimed to re-create an earthly paradise or the ideal life and just dominion of the sovereign presiding over this cosmos. It also offered supernatural and magical protection to the ruler, his entourage, and the sultanate. The Konya Köşk, although situated in an urban environment, evoked the ideal natural setting awaiting the sultan at his country pavilions as well as the paradisiacal ideal awaiting him in heaven. The Konya Köşk. It is the earliest datable court monument in the Rum Seljuq realm, as well as one of the few remaining examples of early Rum Seljuq architecture in Anatolia. (from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452817) Français : un élément de revêtement semblable est visible au Musée du Louvre, département des Arts de l'Islam, vitrine 52, sous le numéro d'Iinventaire OA 7254 a-m.
Ces deux éléments sont les seuls témoignages de l'utilisation de la technqiue haft rang en Anatolie et montrent donc l'importance des échanges avec l'Iran où cette technique est attestée par des pièces datées entre 1179 et 1243 ( référence : Sophie Makariou (dir.), Les Arts de l'Islam au Musée du Louvre, coéditions Musée du Louvre et Hazan, 2012, ISBN 978-2-35031-361-0 etISBN 978-2-75410-619-1, p.173.) |
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| References |
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452817 Galerie Georges Petit: M. O. Homberg Collection. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1908. no. 125. Sarre, Friedrich Dr. Der Kiosk von Konia. Berlin: Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1936. pp. 19ff, 50, ill. pl. 6. Lane, Arthur. "Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia." In Early Islamic Pottery. Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber, 1947. p. 43. Otto-Dorn, Katharina. Turkische Keramik, Veroffentilichungen der Philosophischen Fakultat der Universitat ANkara Nr. 119, (1957). p. 31ff, ill. pl. 10a. Miller IU. A. Khudozhestvennaia Keranika Turtsii. Leningrad, 1972. p. 15. Sotheby's: Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976. no. 103, May 8, 1976. Ettinghausen, Richard. Archives of Asian Art. vol. XXXI (1977–1978). p. 138. Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn. "Islamic Pottery: A Brief History." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 40, no. 4 (Spring 1983). no. 22, p. 22, ill. pl. 22 (color). Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Islamic Art and Architecture 650–1250. 2nd ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. p. 251, ill. fig. 414 (color). Walker, Alicia. "Middle Byzantine Aesthetics of Power and the Incomparability of Islamic Art: The Architectural Ekphraseis of Nikolaos Mesarites." Muqarnas vol. 27 (2010). pp. 80-81, ill. fig. 4 (color). Canby, Sheila R., Deniz Beyazit, and Martina Rugiadi. "The Great Age of the Seljuqs." In Court and Cosmos. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. no. 20a, pp. 81-87, ill. p. 81 (color). |
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