OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560

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AN IZNIK BLUE, RED AND TURQUOISE POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560
A very large rectangular border tile with bevelled edges, the white ground painted with blue and turquoise arabesques with small red highlights within black outlines interlaced with spiralling blue and red tendrils issuing saz leaves and linking large palmettes, a rope-pattern border above and below, small chips
8¼ x 15 1/8in. (21 x 38.3cm.)

Provenance

Lautner, Zurich, 1972

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Lot Essay

The colours of this tile are exactly those used in the mosque of Rustem Pasha of 1561-2. Despite the great proliferation of tiles in the mosque however the present design does not appear at all. It is probable it was made for one of the other major constructions of the period. Its size coupled with the quality of the execution make it certain it originally formed part of one of the grandest buildings commissioned at the time.

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