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Some of the greatest glories of Ottoman art are the luxurious ceramic vesselsand splendid tiles made to decorate newly founded mosques and palaces by theTurkish pottery at Iznik ancient Nicaea. Their designs combine purely Turkishmotifs with elements ingeniously transposed from imported Chinese blueandwhite porcelain. Over time a more subtle painterly style and complex palettewere developed culminating in the brilliant combination of cobalt blueturquoise olive green magenta and red that became the internationallyrecognized Iznik hallmark. Iznik ceramics were highly prized far beyond theOttoman Empire and although the factories had passed their peak by the lateseventeenth century their influence lived on through nineteenthcenturyEuropean imitations by such potters as William de Morgan and Cantagalli. «
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