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The Turkish pottery of İznik, ancient Nicaea, supllied the Ottoman court with luxurious vessels and splendid tiles to decorate newly founded mosques, palaces and other buildings. Acknowledged as one of the great glories of Ottoman art at its peak period, the designs combine purely Turkish motifs with elements ingeniously transposed from imported Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. In the late fifteenth century, when Mehmed the Conqueror established his palace at Topkapı Saray in İstanbul, İznik ceramics were decorated in monochrome cobalt blue. During the next century the designs became looser and more painterly, with a subtle and complexe palette, and finally, after the reign of Sultan Süleyman teh Magnificent ended in 1566, the brilliant colour combination of blue, turquoise, green and relief red was introduced.
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