http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3300334
type: Entity
ksamsok version: 1.3.0
service name: objekt
service organization: SMVK-MM
service organization full: Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet
build date: 2026-08-09
url: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/object/3300334
subject: culturalHistory
data quality: raw
item super type: object
item type: object
replaces: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Islam/3300334
item key word: Room 7
item key word: Room 8
item label: tile panel
is visualized by: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3923706
P12 B.was present at: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953677
P12 B.was present at: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953897
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Description
  desc: A rectangular panel composed from square tiles painted with a polychrome decoration on a white ground and assembled to make a niche motif. Under a horse-shoe shaped niche slightly posed on the edges of capitals and columns, an arabesque-like pattern developing from a vase flanked by cypresses, three superposed pairs of floral scrolls between which grows a big flower and from which come out smaller tinges filling the surface of the panel. Sprays of flowers in the spandrels. Mounted in a wooden frame.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Inventory number
  desc: S.N. I 0031
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Condition
  desc: Complete
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Dimensions
  desc: L. 156 cm, W. 74 cm.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Published text
  desc: The rectangular panel composed of square tiles is dominated by a yellow and brown horseshoe-shaped arch supported by two columns and two capitals. A dense, symmetrical floral design fills the area under the arch emerging from a vase standing on a base. The vase is flanked by cypress trees. Three lotus-like flowers on sturdy stems, one on the top of the other, form a middle axis. On each side of the axis a tendril composed of three scrolls emerges from the vase. Each scroll is filled with a large blossom, of which the two that face each other are similar: the lower pair are rosettes, the two in the middle are lotuses, and the top pair are peonies. The remaining surface under the arch and the spandrels above are filled with sprays of various flowers. Above the arch is a circle containing a motif of a half-moon. The design is painted in an opaque orange-yellow, two tones of green, dark and light blue and brown on an opaque white glaze. The panel is set in a wooden frame. In the AH 11th and 12th / AD 17th and 18th centuries, faience (glazed coloured earthenware) became the dominant element of the Tunisian architectural decoration and the horseshoe-shaped arch called mihrab (prayer niche) an unmistakable feature of most tile panels. The more naturalistic floral decoration and the representations of cypresses are due to the influence of Ottoman art. Source: [https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;10;en&cp] How date and origin were established: This tile panel shows close similarities to panels made by a faience atelier working from about the mid-12th–mid-13th / mid-18th–mid-19th centuries. How Object was obtained: There is no information about acquisition. How provenance was established: The style of decoration was characteristic of ateliers in Tunis. Source: [https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01;10;en&cp]
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Source / http
  desc: https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Exhibition / Previously
  desc: Islamisk konst
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Exhibition, Part of / Previously
  desc: Islamisk konst - Showcase 08
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Material, engelska
  material: Glazed pottery
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Material
  material: Keramik @sv
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Material
  material: Lera @sv
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Material
  material: Glaserat lergods @sv
item measurement: ItemMeasurement
  type: Length / Längd
  value: 156
  unit: cm
item name: ItemName
  type: Object
  name: tile panel
item number: ItemNumber
  type: Inventory number
  number: S.N. I 0031
context: Context
  context label: Ursprung
  context type: use
  context super type: interact
  country: tn
  continent name: Afrika
  country name: Tunisien
item license: cc0
item license url: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
presentation: 1.3.0 2026-08-09 tile panel Rådata 3300334 objekt Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet SMVK-MM Föremål http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3300334 S.N. I 0031 A rectangular panel composed from square tiles painted with a polychrome decoration on a white ground and assembled to make a niche motif. Under a horse-shoe shaped niche slightly posed on the edges of capitals and columns, an arabesque-like pattern developing from a vase flanked by cypresses, three superposed pairs of floral scrolls between which grows a big flower and from which come out smaller tinges filling the surface of the panel. Sprays of flowers in the spandrels. Mounted in a wooden frame. S.N. I 0031, Complete, L. 156 cm, W. 74 cm., The rectangular panel composed of square tiles is dominated by a yellow and brown horseshoe-shaped arch supported by two columns and two capitals. A dense, symmetrical floral design fills the area under the arch emerging from a vase standing on a base. The vase is flanked by cypress trees. Three lotus-like flowers on sturdy stems, one on the top of the other, form a middle axis. On each side of the axis a tendril composed of three scrolls emerges from the vase. Each scroll is filled with a large blossom, of which the two that face each other are similar: the lower pair are rosettes, the two in the middle are lotuses, and the top pair are peonies. The remaining surface under the arch and the spandrels above are filled with sprays of various flowers. Above the arch is a circle containing a motif of a half-moon. The design is painted in an opaque orange-yellow, two tones of green, dark and light blue and brown on an opaque white glaze. The panel is set in a wooden frame. In the AH 11th and 12th / AD 17th and 18th centuries, faience (glazed coloured earthenware) became the dominant element of the Tunisian architectural decoration and the horseshoe-shaped arch called mihrab (prayer niche) an unmistakable feature of most tile panels. The more naturalistic flor…