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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY HEXAGONAL TILE
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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY HEXAGONAL TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1550

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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY HEXAGONAL TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1550
Painted in two shades of brilliant blue together with turquoise under a shiny glaze with a design of radiating panels surrounded by arabesques and containing palmettes flanked by small rosettes and floral sprays all issuing from a central shaped panel, excellent condition, framed, old collection label on reverse
10in. (25.5cm.) across
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Lot Essay

This is a slightly later example of a design of which four earlier examples can be seen in lot 334. The turquoise is a little deeper and the glaze noticeably more shiny. Four similar tiles to the present example are in the British Museum (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.95, p.106).

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