A PAIR OF IZNIK POTTERY TILES

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600

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A PAIR OF IZNIK POTTERY TILES
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600
Each tile of square form with white ground decorated under the glaze in cobalt-blue, turquoise, bole-red and green with an overall design of scrolling vine running through large fleshy blue palmettes and issuing further sprays of carnations, tulips and hyacinths, repaired breaks, small firing misshaps, on steel mount
The panel 19 1/8 x 9 7/8in. (49.2 x25.1cm.)

Provenance

Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), thence by descent to previous owner

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Lot Essay

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), to whom this tile formerly belonged was a British Field Marshal and colonial administrator who won fame for his imperial campaigns - in 1898 he won the Battle of Omdurman and secured control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title ‘Lord Kitchener of Khartoum’. He later went on to Egypt as British Agent and Consul General before becoming Secretary of State for War in 1914. His commanding image appeared on the famous recruiting posters which called ‘Your Country Needs You!’.

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