Alhambra, Torre de las Infantas
T00437, data18/C126
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Ceramic mosaic panels on jambs of arches into the side chambers of the Torre de las Infantas. Colours are white, black, honey-brown, blue and green.
Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 4*2 (p4g).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
- There is one non-regular reflective tile and one reflective pair.
- The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 45 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- vol5, page 54 (Isfahan Chahar Bagh madraseh, Iran) of Mahmood Maher al-Naqsh. Design and execution of drawing in Iranian tilework, Islamic period, Reza Abbasi Museum, 1983. [iran] {Good collection of Iranian patterns, text in Persian}
- Page 126 (Window grille at Alhambra (probably incorrect)) of Keith Critchlow. Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach, Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN 050027071. [critchlow] {Gives about 6 patterns not found in Bourgoin.}
- Page 300 of S J Abas and A S Salman. Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns, World Scientific, 1993. ISBN 981021704. [abas] {Very many patterns in black and white.}
Photographs
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