ColorOurCollections: Hexagonal tile with two ducks, Leighton House

Hexagonal tile, with two ducks, circa 1540-50, made in Iznik

Tile with underglaze decoration in blue and turquoise on a white ground.

The tile is hexagonal, with a narrow floral border and a central image of a pair of ducks with large flowers and leaves curving around them. Only blue and turquoise colours are used but in different shades from dark to light, so that the image is full of detail and movement. This tile is one of many originally decorating the walls of a celebrated bathhouse in Istanbul. Leighton may have bought this tile on his 1867 trip to Istanbul, or later from a Paris dealer who acquired them in 1874.

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ColorOurCollections: Hexagonal tile with two ducks, Leighton House

Published on Aug 5, 2021

Leighton House and Sambourne House

Join us with your pencils, paints or tablet to colour some of our favourite patterns and designs to be discovered in Leighton House and Sambourne House. Hexagonal tile, made in Iznik (circa 1540-50), with a narrow floral border and a central image of a pair of ducks with large flowers and leaves curving around them. Only blue and turquoise colours are used but in different shades from dark to light, so that the image is full of detail and movement. This tile is one of many originally decorating the walls of a celebrated bathhouse in Istanbul. Leighton may have bought this tile on his 1867 trip to Istanbul, or later from a Paris dealer who acquired them in 1874.

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