A PAIR OF IZNIK POTTERY TILES

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600

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A PAIR OF IZNIK POTTERY TILES
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600
Of rectangular form, the white ground painted in cobalt-blue, green, turquoise and bole-red with curved vines issuing grapes and cusped leaves, the border with floral scrolling vine on cobalt-blue ground and bordered on each side with bands of turquoise, small restored chip to the edge of one tile, otherwise intact
Each 8½ x 9½in. (22 x 24cm.) (2)

Provenance

From the collection of Fernand Adda, thence by descent,
From where purchased in 1990s

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Please note that this lot was previously in the collection of Fernand Adda, not Ferdinand Adda as mentioned in the catalogue.

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Lot Essay

Many examples exist of panels with cypress growing on a ground decorated with vine. Similar tiles are found in a panel with twin cypresses in the section of the Heir's Apartment in the Topkapi Saray (T. Oz, Turkish Ceramics, Ankara, 1954, pl. lviii).

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