Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx, ca. 1160s–70s, From Turkey, Konya, Stonepaste; over- and underglaze-painted, gilded, H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm), Ceramics-Tiles, By the early twentieth century, the two-story Konya Kö?k had largely fallen into ruin, but architectural fragments speak to its former artistic sophistication and lavish polychrome ornamentation. The upper story of this Rum Seljuq “citadel-palace” was dominated by an iwan with balconies on three sides facing outward over the sultanate’s capital, Konya, thereby functioning as both a belvedere and a point from which the sultan could consider his dominion
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Hexagonal Tile Ensemble, Sphinx, ca, 1160s–70s, Turkey, Konya, Stonepaste, underglaze-painted, gilded, H, 9 1/4, 23.5 cm, Ceramics-Tiles, early twentieth century, two-story Konya, Kö?k, largely fallen, ruin, architectural fragments, speak, former artistic, sophistication, lavish polychrome, ornamentation, upper story, Rum Seljuq, citadel-palace, dominated, iwan, balconies, three sides, facing, outward, sultanate, capital, thereby functioning, belvedere, point, sultan, consider, dominion
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