OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
From a large original composition, the white ground of the right hand half with bold blue interlaced arabesques containing floral trails and palmettes, the left hand side with a green ground border of bold rosettes and paired scrollling saz leaves, red inner stripe, two repaired small sections to border, slight rim chips
9 7/8 x 8¾in. (25 x 22cm.)

Provenance

Breutsch, 1971

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Lot Essay

Similar tiles exist on the facade of the Sünnet Odasi in the Topkapi Saray Palace, Istanbul. Four tiles from the same field design but with duller colours are in the Antaki Collection, Aleppo (Petsopoulos, Yanni (ed.): Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, no.92, p.93).

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