A recently completed 22cm Mini Desk Globe in a bespoke variation of our Cobalt Blue colouring. The client worked with us to create the map fully in Turkish cartography. And the globe has added hand drawn and hand painted illustrations including a bespoke cartouche.
The colouring was inspired by antique Iznik pottery – named after the town of İznik in Anatolia where it was made. This was the main centre of ceramic production under the Ottomans from the mid fourteenth-century until the end of the seventeenth-century. Whilst early production, mistakenly known as Miletus ware, largely continued the previous Seljukid and Islamic stone-paste traditions, the high quality ceramic wares of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were inspired by Chinese blue and white Ming-dynasty porcelain.
The sixteenth century is seen as a golden age in Iznik production, when innovations in the decorative repertoire and colour-palette became increasingly complex and diverse. Early sixteenth-century cobalt-blue and white Iznik ware which emulated Chinese porcelain was largely adorned with vegetal rumi and floral hatayi motifs.
Most of the surviving Iznik vessels are in museums outside Turkey, but examples of the city’s tile production exist in numerous cities throughout Turkey, such as Istanbul, Bursa, Edirne and Adana. In Istanbul examples of Iznik tiling can be seen in mosques, tombs, libraries, and palace buildings, such as the Rüstem Pasha Mosque, the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque, the tomb of Selim II in the Hagia Sophia complex, and certain buildings of the Topkapı Palace complex such as the Circumcision room and the Baghdad Kiosk.
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