AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE PANEL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE PANEL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1580
Each of the three square tiles with white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise, green, bole-red and black with a repeating design of large palmettes filled with white and red arabesques on cobalt-blue ground, simple turquoise border below, repaired breaks, each separately mounted
9 7/8 x 29¾in. (25 x 75.7cm.)

Provenance

J.W.M Achterberg Collection, by repute purchased in the 1920-30s, thence by descent
Sold Christie's Amsterdam, 14th-16th December 2010

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Lot Essay

Tiles with similar trefoil cartouches linked by a cusped border are in the ?inili Kösk in Istanbul. These are illustrated in Gönül Öney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, Turkey, 1975, nos.99-103.

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