OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

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A PANEL OF COMPOSITE IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY TILES
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The white ground of each with a palmette in the centre of each side linked by spiralling tendrils issuing paired confronted leaves overlaid by bold red cloudband, made up from parts of eight original tiles, framed together
22¾ x 18¼in. (57.5 x 46cm.)

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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 (Rogers, J.M. (ed.): The Topkapi Saray Museum, Architecture, Boston, 1988, p.32, figs. 62-64). Numerous tiles from this design are in public and private collections. Two tiles from the Heidi Vollmoeller Collection are offered as lot 338 in this sale. A large panel is in the Gulbenkian Collection (Calouste Gulbenkian Musée Catalogue, Lisbon, 1982, no.119, p.191). A single tile from the same series is in a private collection in Bonn (Petsopoulos, Yanni.: (ed), Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans, exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, p.95, fig.103). Similar tiles are to be found in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Louvre, the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, and the Kustgewerbe Museum in Cologne amongst others.

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