Armenian Ceramic Tiles Jerusalem

Armenian ceramic sugar bowl with floral motif.

Armenian ceramic tiles jerusalem. However for various reasons the project was scrapped. This makes us one of the oldest if not the oldest business in existence in jerusalem. One of those ceramic artists was my grandfather m. Nshan balian the potter decided to stay in jerusalem and open a workshop on nablus road in 1922.

Armenian pottery from jerusalem tells a story of migration from present day istanbul to jerusalem when armenians were charged by ottoman rulers with restoring the 15th century tiles on the mosque of omar. Several color combinations tile patterns and. This group of armenian ceramic artists and potters made sample tiles for the dome of the rock project. Large armenian ceramic wall hanging tile with blessing.

Armenian ceramic jerusalem camel plate small. Karakashian who together with his partner established a pottery in jerusalem in 1922. The balian tile studio also specializes in the relatively new art of digital ceramic whereby any tile design image sent to us can be reproduced on. Armenian ceramic coffee mug jerusalem.

Most of our decorative tiles are on 15 15 cm tiles but we can change the sizes to border tiles subway tiles and most other tile sizes all the way to 30 30 cm tiles for hand painted tile patterns. The balian family of jerusalem has been producing exclusive hand painted ceramic tiles and pottery since 1922. Their work is stunning and they treat their customers right. We also carry a wonderful selection of trays.

In 1919 a group of armenian ceramic artists from turkey were invited to jerusalem and commissioned to renovate the ceramic tiles covering the exterior walls of the dome of the rock. Since 1922 the balian family tile studio has been producing stunning decorative tiles which can be used for all of your exclusive tile design projects. The studio is currently being run by neshan balian jr whose grandfather neshan balian sr came to jerusalem in 1919 from kutahya turkey. But my grandfather and his partner mr.

We intended to find an armenian ceramics shop on this visit to jerusalem and turns out much to our surprise that this was the same shop we visited while in israel 40 years ago. There are square all ceramic trays trays of wood inlaid with ceramic tiles and an eight. We stumbled on balian ceramics by accident on the road between our hotel and the damascus gate of the old city of jerusalem. Shmuel bar am one room at sledmere a palatial home in yorkshire county england is unique.