About Khiva Ichan-Kala Majolica
The glazed majolica of Khiva's walled Ichan Kala — the squat, unfinished Kalta Minor minaret of 1855 and the courtyards of the Tash-Khauli palace — clothes entire walls in saturated jade-turquoise tile. Floral mosaic fields scroll in deep cobalt and white linework, glassy under the desert sun.
Cooler and greener than Bukhara's warmer ceramics, the Khorezm palette is a wall of glazed turquoise bloom. This system renders that surface in digital form: jade grounds, cobalt borders, white tracery as line — never as ground.
- Origin
- Central Asia — Khiva, Khorezm, Uzbekistan
- Era
- pre-1900 (Khanate of Khiva, mid-19th century; Kalta Minor begun 1855)
- Key figures
- Muhammad Amin Khan · Khorezm tile masters of Ichan Kala
- Movements
- Khorezm majolica tilework · Islamic floral-geometric mosaic · Majolica white-and-blue lineage
Khiva Ichan-Kala Majolica design spec
Colors
Typography
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