OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1550

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AN IZNIK BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1550
The white ground painted in blue and turquoise within black outlines with a central saz leaf with rosettes along the leading edge issuing a floral spray and springing from a trendril from one of the four part- rosettes and palmettes in the centre of each side, each linked by a further simple tendril, reduced along one side, slight retouched rim chips
10¾ x 13in. (27.3 x 33cm.)

Provenance

Étude Daussy-Riqlès: Archéologie, Art d'Orient, experts Jean Soustiel and Marie-Christine David, Drouot Richlieu, Paris, 14 December 1990, lot 275.

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Lot Essay

Many panels of this design, executed, as here, in large size tiles, are found on the external walls of the tomb of Eyup. Three further examples are in the British Museum (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, Fig.96, p.107). Another example from the Theodore Sehmer Collection is in this sale, lot 243.

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