4to. xiii, 49 pp., 75 plates hors text, 144 drawings of which 85 in colour, vignette on title page, biblio., cloth backed boards, title gilt on spine & front cover, published by The Turkish Press, Broadcasting and Tourist Department, [ca. 1953].

Synopsis

Dedicated to the memory of Atatürk on the 15th anniversary of his death.
Oz was a former curator at the Topkapi Palace Museum. This work includes in-depth essays about different periods of Turkish ceramic-making, primarily tiles, with information on the ceramic decorations at several well-known mosques, mausoleums and other monuments (many of them in Istanbul); and another essay about Turkish ceramics in general.