AN IZNIK-STYLE POTTERY TILE PANEL

KUTAHYA, TURKEY, CIRCA 1900

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AN IZNIK-STYLE POTTERY TILE PANEL
KUTAHYA, TURKEY, CIRCA 1900
The rectangular panel formed of twenty-four tiles, the white ground painted in turquoise, green, cobalt-blue and bole-red with curved vines issuing large palmettes, tulips, carnations and red and blue hyacinths, set in a wood panel
61¾ x 36¾in. (156.8 x 93.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

Identical tiles to these decorate the walls of the mosque in the government building in Kutahya. They are all modelled on the 16th century Iznik tiles which decorate the tomb of Sehzade Mustafa in Bursa (circa 1555). A panel of four similar tiles is published in Sebnem Akalin and Hülya Yilmaz Bilgi, Kütahya Tiles and Pottery in the Suna & Inan Kiraç Collection. Delights of Kutahya, Istanbul, 1997, no.162, p.126.

A further panel of tiles from this same series was sold in these Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 473.

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