OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
Originally from a larger composition, the larger left-hand register with very delicate flowering and leafy sprays together with elegant scrolling saz leaf on a white ground, the right hand formed of part of the green ground border painted with very elegant palmette vine threaded through cusped leaf-motifs between plain red stripes, rim chips
10¾ x 10½in. (27.1 x 26.6cm.)

Provenance

Soustiel, Paris, 1989

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The identical border design is found on a pair of tiles sold in these Rooms, 11 April 1989, lots 309 and 310. Both these tiles had a small label stuck to the back inscribed in copperplate script: At. Stora Vte. Jenniette Mars 1919 No.C.1586 2 pieces.

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