A bowl, plate, and jug featuring blue and white with turquoise Iznik glazed artwork from the period 1530-1545 in the Tiled Kiosk at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. The Tiled Kiosk was commissioned by Sultan Mehmed II in 1472 and is one of the oldest buildings in Istanbul. It features Ottoman civil architecture, and was a part of the Topkapı Palace outer gardens. It was used as the Imperial Museum between 1875 and 1891 before the collection moved to the newly constructed main building. It was opened to public in 1953 as a museum of Turkish and Islamic art, and was later incorporated into the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. The Istanbul Archaeology Museums, housed in three buildings in what was originally the gardens of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, holds over 1 million artifacts relating to Islamic art, historical archeology of the Middle East and Europe (as well as Turkey), and a building devoted to the ancient orient.
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