Tile

Unknown

second half 15th century · Earthenware; molded, cobalt-painted on an opaque white glaze powdered with gold under a transparent glaze · Islamic Art

So extravagant was the Alhambra palace that even some floors bore expensive ceramic tile. This tile probably comes from the Alhambra’s Comares hall where fourteenth-century tiles were replaced in the late fifteenth century by new ones like this example, bearing similar designs but executed in cuerda seca. The tiles paving the hall today date to the sixteenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

second half 15th century

Medium

Earthenware; molded, cobalt-painted on an opaque white glaze powdered with gold under a transparent glaze

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894