ÇİNİNİN SIR ALTINDAKİ SERÜVENİ
THE ADVENTURES OF UNDER GLAZE TILE

Summary/Abstract: Turkish tile art is one of the areas that produce the most beautiful examples of Turkish decorative arts. It revealed unique examples by synthesizing the effects taken from different cultural environments. Anatolian Tile Art takes its roots from Uighurs, Karahanlis, Ghaznavid, Fatimid, in particular the Great Seljuk art. Turkish tile which enriched the Anatolian civilization with its historical form and perfection as a tradition was first seen in the structures of Karahanlis, who founded the first Muslim Turkish State. Introduced by the Seljuks as an architectural element, Turkish tile art has the most beautiful and successful examples of various techniques. It has been later enriched in Ottoman art and reached its peak especially between the 13th and the 19th centuries, and it has demonstrated an exceptional great innovations. Turkish tile art has gained a worldwide reputation by their wide range of techniques, colors and patterns. The practice of tile art has been used with very different techniques such as unglazed ceramics, glazed brick, plain monochrome glazed tiles, monochrome glazed tiles with gilt, embossed tiles, mosaic tiles, under glaze tiles, luster tiles, Minai and Cuerda Seca tiles with colored glaze technique. The most common and best known group of Ottoman tiles is the under glazed tile, which is produced in İznik. In this study, the production process of decorating tile with under glaze technique, which is the most widely used technique of the Anatolian Turkish Period tile techniques will be discussed.

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