shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileUzbekistan

in the Fergana Valley, near the Kyrgyz border

Andijan

Name: Andijan — on ceramic tile, by WenderVista
Brand: WenderVista

— — the city the empire began from.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.

— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand

— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines

— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall

— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround

— a note from the studio

“A market city on the eastern edge of the Fergana Valley, the last big place before the road climbs into Kyrgyzstan. Babur was born here in 1483 and remembered the town, in the Baburnama, for its melons and its pheasants. The Jami complex still holds the courtyard the bazaar wraps around on Friday mornings. — from the studio

from the studio

— bring it home

Andijan, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?

One tile — square or rectangle.

How big?

the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand

6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb

Surface finish

A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.

How it sits

A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.

$58

Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.

— size

6 × 6 in

15 cm

— weighs

1.6 lb

solid in the hand

— surface

ceramic, hand-finished

art rests beneath a thin glossy finish

— from

Knoxville, TN

our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies

— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Andijan

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.

— the place

Andijan sits in the eastern Fergana Valley, about 50 km from the Kyrgyz border and 350 km east of Tashkent by road. The city's population is near 500,000, the third largest in Uzbekistan. The valley floor lies at roughly 450 meters, ringed by the Tian Shan foothills. The town stood on the northern silk route between Kashgar and Samarkand for over a thousand years before the Timurids made it a regional seat.

— informed by Wikipedia — Andijan

— the year

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, born in Andijan on 14 February 1483, founded the Mughal Empire in 1526 after the first battle of Panipat. He wrote the Baburnama, the first autobiography in Islamic literature, partly in the Andijani-Turkic dialect — the parent of modern Uzbek. In its opening pages he remembers the city's gardens, its pheasants, and the melons of Akhsi as the finest in the inhabited world.

— informed by Wikipedia — Babur, Wikipedia — Baburnama

— the stone

The Jami complex, built in the 1890s under Sultan Mahmud Khan, anchors the old town beside the Eski Shahar bazaar. Its brick minaret stands over 30 meters above the courtyard, the tallest pre-Soviet structure left in the Fergana Valley. The complex survived the 1902 earthquake that levelled most of the city, and is the largest madrasa in the region, with a prayer hall sized for nearly a thousand worshippers.

— informed by Wikipedia — Andijan

— where

Uzbekistan · Andijan, Andijan Region

— elevation

450 m · 1,476 ft

— position

40.7821° N · 72.3442° E

— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.

50 km E

Osh

Silk Road city

75 km W

Fergana

valley city

70 km NW

Namangan

valley city

Andijan

Osh

Fergana

Namangan

— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Andijan — and about bringing the piece home.

— about the place

In the eastern Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, about 50 km from the Kyrgyz border and 350 km east of Tashkent. It is the country's third-largest city, with a population near 500,000.

Babur, who founded the Mughal Empire in 1526, was born in Andijan in 1483. The city sat on the northern Silk Road between Kashgar and Samarkand for over a thousand years.

The autobiography Babur wrote in Andijani Turkic, the first true autobiography in Islamic literature. Its opening pages describe Andijan's gardens, melons, and pheasants in unusual detail.

The Jami Mosque and Madrasa, built in the 1890s under Sultan Mahmud Khan beside the Eski Shahar bazaar. Its brick minaret is the tallest pre-Soviet structure remaining in the Fergana Valley.

Friday mornings, when the Eski Shahar market wraps the Jami courtyard and pulls in traders from across the valley and over the Kyrgyz passes.

— about the piece in your home

It carries well for that recipient. Andijan is a quieter choice than Samarkand or Bukhara, and it lands for anyone who knows the valley or remembers Babur. A Small or Coaster with a handwritten note from the studio is the usual gift size.

The Voynich stained-glass colour suits Jewel-tone Maximalist rooms, Silk-Road eclectic interiors, and warm Mediterranean palettes. The blues and pomegranate reds carry against plaster walls and dark wood.

Yes. Central Asian motifs are central to the global-eclectic and caravan-modern trend lines, and Andijan reads as informed rather than tourist. The piece anchors a wall without crowding it.

A single Large reads well above a console. Above a standard sofa, step up to a 4-tile Mural; above a long sectional, a 9-tile Mural holds the wall.

Yes, with the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and built for vertical installation in wet rooms; the Glossy is for dry-wall display only.

A microfibre cloth and water. The colour lives in the ceramic surface, so it will not lift, fade, or scratch under normal cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to the studio, drawn from Reid's atlas. Nothing is licensed and nothing repeats across other shops.

— if this one stayed with you