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  ait ouakli May 10, 2014 at 9:42am

  i took the opportunity of the nice weather to make the fotos.

  one of my big love to the adornments is this old ceramic.maybe my first love to the adornments at all. i was maybe 3 years old when i was standing minutes at floor looking at this beauties and was realy fascinated. it was in a house in the begining of the casbah
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  Patricia Deany May 10, 2014 at 1:00pm

  Did you find these? Or purchase them? I have heard that the casbah is deteriorating at a rapid pace. I love old ceramic tiles as well, learned a lot about them on my trip to Uzbekistan.
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  ait ouakli May 10, 2014 at 2:03pm

  Patty. casbah is so deteriorated that it hurt me to go there. i live 10mn walk from there, i have lot of friends living inside or around and cant always viste them because of it. i visite a museum in the beginig of casbah to see some friends there, new items and get to the roof to have stay soem hours looking at the nice houses that are good.

  i dont remember exactly, there is some i colected myself in broken areas and nobody was caring ( years ago ) and there is some i bought from people.

  i have here this 2 left and the rest ( 8 or 10 ) in algeria. i made a donation of other pieces to people living around who wanted to restaure their houses. they are now difficult to get since people are saling them for antik stores or taking them to auction houses
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  ait ouakli May 10, 2014 at 2:05pm

  there is new ones or less old, maybe 50 years old

  they actualy look very nice and a persone who is not used too can be confused with

  the production of this tlies didnt stop and will continue
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  Patricia Deany May 10, 2014 at 9:26pm

  Is there a reason why the casbah is allowed to deteriorate? -- too little money? lack of support? It is an UN historical site. Is it because Algeria does not want or need a tourist industry. I would think, in terms of modern history alone, the casbah would be worth restoring and preserving. So many of the UN sites have been restored and that is a wonderful thing.
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  ait ouakli May 11, 2014 at 8:40am

  Patty, it is the mix of all what you wrote, the deterioration started to get wprs since 30 years, there is snough money in country or coming from unesco
  Wha t is missing is competent and not corupt people who can do a good job
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  marie jose Opper May 11, 2014 at 10:38am

  Superb! It seems to me that both were made in Valencia , Spain. The left one at the end of 17th century, early 18th century. The right one around 1700-1720.

   Google : "les carreaux hispaniques de Valence"
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  ait ouakli May 11, 2014 at 11:02am

  thank you marie for the link to valencia faience. i found there a resemblance i suspected about ( sidi abderahmane ) faince

  if you know sidi baderahmane, i guess yes, if you stand at the door and look up, there is stairs in zigzag, at the right side, a big part of the construction is a church mission , there is a bibliothek there and all the construction is made of this faience samples ( the bibliothek has the biggest archive of the fainec and the bastion 23 what is a museum now)
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  Betty May 11, 2014 at 2:57pm

  I am totally ignorant when it comes to tiles, I am afraid, but I love the patterns and colours! 
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  ingrid Langerak May 11, 2014 at 7:41pm

  Elegant swirls and beautiful deep colors. I also saw that the whole staircase is an exposition of all different designs. It think that looks great because thinking how it ay look if the whole staircase was done in one pattern or colors, it would be very oppressive. I think they knew what they were doing.

  They look also rather thick, tiles of this thickness in Europe (like The Netherlands are as old as 1600)

  How old would these beauties be?