Lot 27
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
The white ground with a central red, green and blue rosette issuing six swirling branches each with a similar smaller rosette, also with the addition of a turquoise colour, set within a cusped red and white circular frame, the linked green spandrels with reserved white, red and blue arabesque panels, slight chipping to edges
9¾in. (24.5cm.) square
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Lot Essay

Tiles of this design are used to surround the mihrab in the mosque of Mesih Pasha dating from 1585. This mosque, whose patron was briefly Grand Vizier under Sultan Murad III, was built in 1585. Other examples of the design are in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (A. Altun, J. Carswell and G. /UOney: Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1985, no.I.71, p.44), the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (J. Zick-Nissen: Islamische Keramik, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.345, pp.235-6) and toher collections.

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