Live Auction 5169Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
Lot 247

AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

Closed26 April 2012

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GBP 13,750

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
Of square form, the white ground painted in cobalt-blue, bole-red and turquoise, with a central tri-lobed palmette with lower stem surrounded by a stylised cloudband, surrounded by four rosettes set within a floral lattice, repaired breaks
12 x 12 1/8in. (30.5 x 30.8cm.)

Formerly European private collection, assembled 1945-78

Specialist note

Similar tiles can be seen in situ in the library of Ahmed III at the Topkapi Palace. Another is published in Hülya Bilgi, Dance of Fire: Iznik Tiles and Ceramics in the Sadberk Hanim Museum and Ömer M. Koç Collections, 2009, no.113, p.215.