A BLUE AND WHITE IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1530

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A BLUE AND WHITE IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1530
Of hexagonal form, the surface painted in cobalt-blue and turquoise on white ground with a central cypress tree issuing from a leafy frond, the cypress surrounded by two smaller turquoise trees each filled with a spray of flowerheads and flanked by a large curling branch of hyacinths, traces of a cobalt-blue border, chips to edges, otherwise intact
10¾in. (27.8cm.) at widest

Provenance

Anon Sale, Sotheby's, London, 11th February 1964, lot 14

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Lot Essay

A panel of similar tiles hangs in Leighton House, in the Arab Hall, just above the door to the study. Another is in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (SHM 3928-HK 865; Ara Altun, Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1991, I.54, p.38).

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