OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

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A PAIR OF IZNIK POTTERY TILES
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
Each of rectangular form, the white ground of each painted in cobalt-blue, bole-red, and green with black outlines, with curved stylised cloudbands interlaced with saz leaves surrounding a central rosette
Each 5½ x 8¾in. (14.1 x 22cm.)

Provenance

Collection of Joseph Soustiel,
Thence by descent

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Lot Essay

An Iznik tile of similar design sold at Sotheby’s, 9 April 2014, lot 127. A related tile panel though with the cloud bands alternated with complicated floral palmettes is in the David Collection (5/1964; Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, no.270). That is attributed to circa 1575.

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