Painted in underglaze blue, turqoise, green and purple, the tile introduces, with its floral and arabesque pattern, an outstanding example that represents a turning point in architectural decoration in Ottoman Turkey. The tile is fragmentary but the central flower is nicely preserved and it documents the so-called “style of four flowers” - the tulip, the carnation, the rose and the hyacinth, that emerged between 1560 and 1650.

History of the Object

The history of the object is unknown. It belongs to the old acquisition of the Náprstek Museum. It probably came to the museum's collection in the 1950s as a result of the nationalizing of the nobilities´ and monasteries´ properties at the end of 1940s