Notably in the 18th century by combining the local style with inspiration taken from the contemporary porcelains of the Far East and Europe, producing elegant ware for daily use and liturgical objects. As well as blue and white, other coloured decoration including cobalt blue, turquoise, greens and earth colours including red were popular decorative colours.
One of the most important and distinctive characteristics of Iznik ceramics is the use, beginning in the 18th century, of a particularly vivid and brilliant yellow. There are 126 examples in this collection of high quality 18th Kütahya ceramics, which distinguish this collection and gives it an international reputation. This fully illustrated work, consisting of 135 pages has been printed in both a Turkish and English language volumes.
Within this catalogue are 177 representative examples of Kütahya ceramics from the Suna and İnan Kıraç collection of Kütahya porcelain and ceramics, with a description, inventory date and coloured photographs. Because of the high quality and the delicacy of the 18th. century examples, this collection is of international significance.
Notably in the 18th century by combining the local style with inspiration taken from the contemporary porcelains of the Far East and Europe, producing elegant ware for daily use and liturgical objects. As well as blue and white, other coloured decoration including cobalt blue, turquoise, greens and earth colours including red were popular decorative colours.
One of the most important and distinctive characteristics of Iznik ceramics is the use, beginning in the 18th century, of a particularly vivid and brilliant yellow. There are 126 examples in this collection of high quality 18th Kütahya ceramics, which distinguish this collection and gives it an international reputation. This fully illustrated work, consisting of 135 pages has been printed in both a Turkish and English language volumes.
Within this catalogue are 177 representative examples of Kütahya ceramics from the Suna and İnan Kıraç collection of Kütahya porcelain and ceramics, with a description, inventory date and coloured photographs. Because of the high quality and the delicacy of the 18th. century examples, this collection is of international significance.