OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

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AN IZNIK POTTERY BORDER TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The cobalt-blue ground painted with bole-red, white, green and black, decorated with a large central cloudband with floral sprays on each side, a narrow turquoise border along one long side, the other long side bevelled and decorated with strapwork design, intact
6 x 10 ½in. (15 x 26.5cm.)

Provenance

Sotheby’s London, 14 April 2010, lot 313

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Lot Essay

A panel of tiles of the same design although without the plaited border is in the Sadberk Hanim Museum, attributed there to the late 16^th century (SHM 9300-P.314; published Ara Altun, John Carswell and Gönül Öney, Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1991, no.I.62, p.41 and front cover). Others are in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, no.270, p.190).

When this tile was sold at Sotheby’s in 2010, it was said to be in a dark frame with a wooden backing marked with the initials ‘SEK’ and numbered 100. A group of four tiles with the same markings were said to be formerly property of the Dedleston Estate Trustees and found at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire.

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