OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

Examples of identical tiles including the bevelled edges can be found in the Has Oda of Murad III (1578-9) in the Topkapi Saray Palace (Rogers, J.M. (ed.): The Topkapi Saray Museum, Architecture, Boston, 1988, pl.64). Twenty are in the Gulbenkian Collection (Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1985, vol.2, no, p.176). A further tile of this design is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, bequest of Edwin Binney 3rd, while another is in the David Collection., Copenhagen (Folsach, Kjeld v.: Art from the World of Islam, Copenhagen, 2001, no.266, p.189). A similar tile but without the bevelled borders is in the Theodore Sehmer Collection, included as lot 212 in this sale.