FOUR IZNIK POTTERY TILES

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

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FOUR IZNIK POTTERY TILES
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
Each of square form, 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 at their centres, set within a cusped red and white circular frame, the green spandrels with reserved white, red and blue arabesque panels, all intact
Each tile 9¾ (24.8cm.) square

Provenance

Acquired by current owner 2007, formerly UK private collection since 1980s

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Lot Essay

Tiles of this design are used to surround the mihrab in the Mesih Mehmet Pasha Mosque. 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 (Ara Altun, John Carswell and Gonul Öney, Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1985, no.I.71, p.44), the Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf (J. Zick-Nissen, Islamische Keramik, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.345, pp.235-6) and other collections. Others have sold in these Rooms, 12 October 2004, lot 27 and more recently 13 April 2010, lots 236 and 237.

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