We move from works on glass to ceramic art objects this week, traveling to the Holy Land to see a quartet of tiles on biblical themes from the Jerusalem Pottery workshop of the Karakashian family. They are descendants of Armenian ceramic artists who were invited to Palestine when the British controlled the region in 1918 to restore tiles in the Dome of the Rock shrine and stayed on to continue a tradition of pottery making, developed by Armenian artisans in Kutahya, a leading ceramic center of the old Ottoman Empire. The four tiles are a radical departure from pieces already on view on the Armenian Ceramics page, inspired by Kutahya tiles from the 18th century in the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem. To reach a younger market, the Karakhasian family launched a line of tiles in a cartoon-style, based on designs by Harry Araten, a Moroccan-born Jew who settled in Israel in 1968, known for his children's book illustrations. We see Noah in the Ark, the Rescue of Baby Moses, David and Goliath, and the Flight into Egypt. (John Kohan)