OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
The white ground painted in bright green, red, cobalt-blue, light blue and turquoise with spiralling tendrils issuing two saz leaves intertwined with two strands of red rosette sprays forming a central figure-of-eight motif flanked by blue tulips, part blue palmettes at the sides, reduced at one side
9 7/8in x 9in. (25cm x 22.8cm.)

Provenance

Jacques Matossian, Paris, 1961

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Lot Essay

Tiles of this design are found in the Husrev Celebi/Ramazan Effendi mosque in Kocamustafapasha dating from 1585-6 AD (Öz, Tahsin: Turkish Ceramics, Istanbul, n.d., pl.103; see also Kuran, Aptullah: Sinan, Washington D.C., 1987, pp.42-3). A similar example, which replaces the tulips found here with peonies, is in the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar (Carswell, John: Iznik, Pottery for the Ottoman Empire, Qatar, 2003, no.20, pp.78-9).

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