OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1500

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AN IZNIK CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1500
The cobalt-blue ground decorated with bright yellow strapwork forming four bold arabesque panels radiating from a central quatrefoil motif, the arabesque panels filled with palmettes on a green ground, divided by green and manganese palmette-motifs issuing from white and turquoise cloudband designs flanking a lower central quatrefoil motif, part palmettes around the sides, glaze chipped around edges
10½ x 10 1/8in. (26.4 x 25.7cm.)

来源

Abdul Kent/George Carver, 1974

注意事项

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拍品专文

Identical tiles, together with those of a similar design but with the two major elements reversed from the present design, can be found in situ on the facade of the Throne Room at the Topkapi Palace (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.90, p.101 - the identical tiles to ours can just be seen appearing at the top of the picture). Tils of this design were also used to decorate the türbe of Sultan Selim I (built 1522) and the mosque of Kasim Pasha at Bozüyük, built in 1529.

Four further examples of this design can be found in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, (Calouste Gulbenkian Musée, Catalogue, Lisbon, 1982, p.37, fig.107), while two more were in the Fouad Matouk Collection, Beirut (Art Islamique dans les collections privées libanaises, exhibition catalogue, Beirut, 1974, no.102, p.130). Three further examples were sold at Sotheby's, London, 16 October 1998, lot 57.