Lot 86
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A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY TILE
A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY TILE
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A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, 1575-1580

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A LARGE IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 1575-1580
The white ground painted under the glaze with cobalt-blue, bole-red, green, turquoise and black with a repeating design of a central lotus palmette containing a floral spray on a red ground and issuing paired saz leaves and rosettes, intact
12 ¼ x 12 3/8in. (31 x 31.5cm.)
Provenance
Bernheimer Kunst und Antiquitaten, Munich, sold July 1983 to Dr. Ursula Braun (d. 2024)

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Lot Essay

An almost identical tile is in the Freer Gallery of Art (F2001.15). Another is in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. Two further examples are in the Khalili Collection (J.M.Rogers, Empire of the Sultans. Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, 2000, pp.196-97, no.133). Ours is a particularly fine example of this design. Another, of the same design but with inferior drawing and weaker control of colour, was sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2012, lot 246. Two others sold in these Rooms, 28 April 1992, lot 236.

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