AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE PANEL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE PANEL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
Each tile of square form, the white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise, green, bole-red and black with a bold white arabesque filled with floral spray and reserved against cobalt blue-ground, below this a border with rosettes issuing saz leaves containing floral spray and reserved against turquoise ground, a plain red line separating them, framed
18 1/8 x 9 7/8in. (46 x 25cm.) overall

Provenance

European collection since 1980s

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Lot Essay

A closely related tile to the panel offered here, although with an inverted colour scheme in the main panel and a border on green ground rather than turquoise, is in the Ömer M. Koç collection (Hülya Bilgi, Dance of Fire. Iznik Tiles and Ceramics in the Sadberk Hanim Museum and the Ömer M. Koç Collections, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul, 2009, no.79, pp.170-71). Another single tile with similar design was sold in these Rooms, 27 April 2004, lot 330. Similar tiles exist on the facade of the Sünnet Odasi in the Topkapi Saray Palace, Istanbul. Four tiles from the same field design but with duller colours are in the Antaki Collection, Aleppo (Yanni Petsopoulos (ed.), Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, no.93, p.93).

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