Decorative Arts
From Turk Kulturu ve Tarihi - Turkish Culture and History
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Decorative Arts
Decorative arts in the life of the Turks go back to the first century B.C. The most striking examples of decorative art were produced during the Seljuk and Ottoman periods in enamelled tile making, miniatures, filigrees, marbling, coloured glass making, calligraphy, gilding, engraving and glass and repousse work. Being entirely applied arts, these forms were regarded as crafts rather than art. Though styles were many and varied, artists never signed their work.
* Enamelled Tile Making * Miniatures * Filigree * Stained Glass * Marbling , The Art of Marbling * Gilding , Wood Engraving * Repousse Work , Calligraphy * Carpet Weaving , Turkish Carpets * Anatolian Carpets & Kilims * Cloth Painting * Arrowpoint in Illumination * Braziers * Bathbowls * Jewelry * Calligraphy * Canakkale Ceramics * Iznik Ceramics * Ottoman Ceramics * Glass making * Clay Pipe-making * Holy descriptions * Laminated Paper in Calligraphy * Mirrors and their Frames * Mother-of-Pearl and its Art * Silver Repoussage * The Ottoman Spoons * Turkish-Islamic Art; The Miniatures of the Zubdat-al-Tawarikh * Woodwork in Turkish Art * Woodwork Objects in the Kayseri Ethnographic Museum
