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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME SQUARE TILE
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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME SQUARE TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME SQUARE TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
The white ground painted under the clear glaze with two extended red and green saz leaves originally forming elements of an ogival lattice, a cusped part indigo interlaced arabesque panel at each side, repaired breaks with old rivet repairs, chips to edges
11in. (27.7cm.) square
Provenance
Kevorkian, Paris, 1956
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

A panel of the same tiles is found in the Sultan Ahmed mosque, Istanbul. (Oz, Tahsin: Turkish Ceramics, Turkey, pp.X and 34-35, pl. LV, p.106; Öney, Gönül: Turkish Tile Art, Istanbul, 1976, p.54). The tiles in this mosque vary very considerably in quality and there is a question about whether the better tiles, of which the present lot is certainly an example, have been re-used from another earlier building.

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