Lot 345
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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY TILE
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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570

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AN IZNIK POLYCHROME POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
The white ground painted in cobalt-blue, turquoise, green, red and black with a large central palmette formed of interlaced elegantly drawn arabesques flanked by similar smaller part-palmettes, rising from a cusped base, a band of red and white key-pattern below, minimal small chips, centre drilled and restored
10¼ x 10 5/8in. (26 x 27.1cm.)
Provenance
sold Sotheby's, London, 20 April 1983, lot 154
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Lot Essay

An identical tile is in the Kestner Museum, Hannover (Niewöhner, Elke: Islamische Kunst, Kestner-Museum Hannover, Hannover, 1991, no.45, p.31 and front cover illustration), while another, considerably more damaged, is in the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (Islamische Keramik, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.350(pt.), p.239). A number of others of this design are known, but with the details worked with considerably less finesse than is found here.

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