Lot Essay
Further examples of this design are noted by Walter Denny in the Binney Catalogue as being in the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Cologne and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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SYRIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Details
A DAMASCUS POTTERY TILE
SYRIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
The white ground with a central cusped roundel outlined in blue containing a floral spray executed in blue, manganese and sage-green, surrounded by small panels of cintamani motifs, part rosettes in each corner, very slight chipping to edges
10½in. (26.6cm.) square
SYRIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
The white ground with a central cusped roundel outlined in blue containing a floral spray executed in blue, manganese and sage-green, surrounded by small panels of cintamani motifs, part rosettes in each corner, very slight chipping to edges
10½in. (26.6cm.) square
Provenance
Edwin Binney 3rd
Literature
E. Binney 3rd and W. Denny: Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, Portland, Oregon, 1979, ceramic 11, pp.220-1.
Walter Denny: Iznik, the Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics, London, 2004, pp.136-7 (this tile).
Walter Denny: Iznik, the Artistry of Ottoman Ceramics, London, 2004, pp.136-7 (this tile).
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