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Tile Panel

ca. 1430
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 454
These tiles represent a ceramic type produced by the workshop of Ibn al-Ghaibi al‑Tawrizi, which operated out of Damascus in the early fifteenth century before relocating to Cairo. The panel is so similar in technique, composition, and style to one signed by Ghaibi and still extant in the funerary complex of Ghars al‑Din al‑Tawrizi (d. 1430) in Damascus that it probably came from that very building. The Museum holds more than a dozen sherds bearing the signature of this workshop, as well as a ceramic mosque lamp signed by the son of Ghaibi—evidence that Ghaybi's son continued in the trade.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Tile Panel
  • Date: ca. 1430
  • Geography: Attributed to Syria, Damascus
  • Medium: Stonepaste; modeled, polychrome painted under transparent glaze
  • Dimensions: H. 45 in. (114.3 cm)
    W. 45 in. (114.3 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Tiles
  • Credit Line: Gift of Professor Maan Z. Madina and Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2009
  • Object Number: 2009.59.2a–p
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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