Lot 333
333
AN IZNIK POTTERY BORDER TILE
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AN IZNIK POTTERY BORDER TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

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AN IZNIK POTTERY BORDER TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
The square tile divided into two registers, the larger lower one with complex interlaced blue, green and white arabesques against a bright red ground, the upper smaller register with a band of blue, red and green feathery palmettes on a white ground, plain narrow turquoise stripes above, below and dividing the two, corner rejoined, glaze chips
10 x 9 5/8in. (25.6 x 24.6cm.)
Provenance
Zoumboulakis, Athens, 1964
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

An almost identical tile but with more turquoise in the details was sold in these rooms 15 October 2002, lot 367. Further examples are in the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (Zick, Johanna et al.: Islamische Keramik, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.350 (pt.), p.239).

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