Abstract:

It is difficult to ignore the abundance of ceramics, which are indispensable documents of the trade in the Mediterranean region and western Anatolia. Those finds having traces of the past, display how Ottoman ceramic art was popular in Europe. Meanwhile the European ceramics namely Italian, English, Dutch and Spanish ceramics were also well known and used in Anatolia as well. Obviously the most important factor for the prevalence of the European ceramics in Anatolia, especially in the Mediterannean and Aegean regions, is due to European families, ie. Levantines. The abundance and the variety of the ceramics found in the excavations at the Smyrna Agora, display the ceramic trade seen from the early period continued through the later period. Again the volume of the ceramics lead to the opinion that those ceramics received appreciation not only by the Levantine families but also Muslim Turcs and other ethnic societies living in the Ottoman Empire.