A PANEL OF EIGHTEEN IZNIK HEXAGONAL POTTERY TILES

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A PANEL OF EIGHTEEN IZNIK HEXAGONAL POTTERY TILES
WESTERN ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1525

Together with part-tiles forming a rectangular panel, each with a white ground painted in turquoise and two shades of cobalt-blue with a radiating design of cobalt and turquoise arabesques forming a lattice interlaced with light and dark cobalt palmettes and flowerheads linked by tendrils, occasional firing discolourations
each tile 8in. (20.2cm.) maximum diameter (18)

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A number of Iznik tiles of this design are known. None however are unfortunately found in the situations for which they were made. A group was re-used in the remodelling of the external wall of the Sünnet Odasi (the Circumcision Room) of the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul. Further examples can be seen in the inili Kösk, the Louvre Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the Sadberk Hanim Museum. Although they are found here arranged in an overall design, those outside the Sünnet Odasi are mounted interspersed with triangular plain turquoise tiles which may have been the original concept for their display.

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