TURKEY Mosque at Tabriz & Palace at Konya Decorations

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Persian Mural Decorations The brownish color in the photo is metallic gold in the print Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001 Print Specifics: Type of print: Lithograph - Original French antique printPublisher: Librairie de Firmin Didot, Paris, Rue Jacob 56, 1885-1887. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)Dimensions: 11 x 15.5 inches (28 x 40 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. Detail of the print is sharper than the photo of the print. Hard copy of the legend key is not included. Legend to the illustrations: N° 1, 13, 16 and 17 are fragments taken from the palace of the Sultans at Konieh, the former Iconium, capital of the Seljuks. This town, which was wealthy, for it is located on the caravan route which runs from Mesopotamia to Smyrna, has been reduced to the rank of a provincial capital. The magnificent palace which provided us with these motifs now lies in ruins, and the examples reproduced here are from the final remains of the large reception hall, or selamlik of the Sultans. N° 16 and 17. Flower-shaped decorations from the interior of the pendentives of the cornice, which is made of stucco. As the flower shapes which fill up the flat surface inside each pendentive are of various shapes, it is believed that no moulding was used in their making. All the other motifs, which are of a different style, come from the decoration of a mosque at Tabriz, in the province of Anatolia. Notwithstanding the proscriptions of the Koran, which forbade the use of gold for the adornment of religious edifices, in the Tabriz mosque the walls and the pillars were adorned with gilded ornaments. The glazed tilework used in the facings of walls is in general made of a porous, lightly baked clay. The clay seems to have been fired twice: once to bake it, a second time to fix the ornamentation. The metals used for the colours are generally cobalt for blue, manganese for purple, lead-protoxide for yellow, sulphured lead for white, and oxidized iron for the red, which is always yellowish. Green is usually obtained with lead, although some appears more emerald green. possibly because it is made from a sort of copper. The tile is first given a ground in a plain colour, and on this the running ornamentations are applied by means of a mould. The colour is always fairly thick. These documents are taken from the works of Charles Texier's Description de l'Asie Mineure and Voyage en Perse. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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