AN IZNIK POTTERY HEXAGONAL TILE
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AN IZNIK POTTERY HEXAGONAL TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1540

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AN IZNIK POTTERY HEXAGONAL TILE
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1540
The white ground painted in cobalt-blue and turquoise with a central rosette flanked by interlaced arabesques issuing palmettes, in a turquoise border of blue part-rosettes, light surface scratches, chips to edges, one corner squared off, otherwise intact
11 1/8in. (28.2cm.) across
Provenance
Edwin Binney III
Literature
Binney, Edwin: Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd: 1981 Supplement to the 1979 Catalogue, San Diego, 1981, pl. Ceramic 3B, pp.20-21.
Atasoy, Nurhan and Raby, Julian: Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, pl.50b and 228, pp.57-59 and 134.
Denny, Walter: 'Turkish Ceramics and Textiles in the Binney Collection', in Arts of Asia, 11/12 1987, pl.60, pp. 108-109.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

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