OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

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TWO IZNIK POTTERY BORDER TILES
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1580
Of rectangular form, each painted in bole-red, cobalt-blue and green within black outlines on a white ground with a design of radiating alternating bold palmettes forming a cusped crenellated design, each tile with repaired break, framed
overall 4 7/8 x 19 5/8in. (12.4 x 49.8cm.) (2)

Provenance

Anon sale, Sotheby's, 22 October 1992, lot 160.
Formerly A.J.Butler (label on reverse). This presumably is the author of the 1926 book, Islamic Pottery.

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Lot Essay

A panel of five tiles of similar design and dimension is in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Catalogue, Lisbon, 1982, no.115). A further complete border framing tiles of the 1560s is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Petsopoulos, Yanni (ed.): Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, fig.128, p.134). Further examples of tiles of this design have been sold in these Rooms, 21 June 2000, lot 19 and at Sotheby's 25 April 1991, lot 1156.

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