Lot 45
45
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

Details
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
The white ground painted under the glaze in bole-red, cobalt-blue, green and black, a central red cloudband-motif overlaying tendrils issuing blue saz leaves, partial further cloudbands and rosettes around the sides
9 ¾ x 8 5/8in. (24.8 x 22cm.)
Provenance
François de Ricqlès, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 25 September 1998, lot 43
Collection of Howard Hodgkin

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Lot Essay

Identical tiles are located in the domed ante-room to the Has Oda (Privy Chamber) of Murad III (1578-9) at the Topkapi Saray Palace (J.M. Rogers (ed.), The Topkapi Saray Museum, Architecture, Boston, 1988, p.32, figs.62-64). These tiles were likely commissioned as part of the restorations to the Topkapi Saray Palace which took place after 1574. Tiles of this design are in the Gulbenkian Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others. Two tiles of this design were sold in these Rooms, 27 April 2004, lot 338.

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