English: Ceramic plate. Height: 7 cm, Diameter: 45½ cm. From Iznik, c. 1500. Inv. n0 41/9. The colour on the next picture is closer to the original. An example of the pure white ground on which the cobalt blue design (large rumis and cloud bands, scrolling branches and blossoms) is depicted. These designs were drawn by the artists of the Topkapı Sarayı workshop and sent to the potters at Iznik for transfer to the tile panels and plates, which were not only used in the mosques and palaces of the Ottoman Empire, but were exported all over Europe.