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İznik pottery



İznik pottery, named after the town in western Anatolia where it was made, is highly decorated ceramics whose heyday was the late sixteenth century. The largest collection of vessels is in the British Museum and İznik tiles may be seen in quantity in the imperial and religious buildings of Istanbul.



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