Antique Kütahya Pottery Icon Tile Armenian Virgin Mary & Child Jesus Turkey 1820 Sold The head of the bull

The head of the bull forms the spout from which water can be poured out

The Louvre Paris

5 cm X 18 cm X 15 cm

In the early 1920s he was very much in demand for lighting

Kornberg is a Professor Emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art

Antique Kütahya Pottery Icon Tile Armenian Virgin Mary & Child Jesus Turkey 1820 Sold The head of the bullAn important 19th century Ktahya pottery icon tile of The Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Turkey circa 1850. The tile most likely made for the Christian Armenian community in the Western Turkish city of Ktahya, famous for fine pottery and tile making by Christian Armenians. This panel is composed of a single tile depicting the icon of Virgin Mary holding child Jesus. The Virgin Mary is painted purple, yellow, green, red and underglaze blue. On her