OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY

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FOUR IZNIK POTTERY TILE FRAGMENTS
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY
The largest with cloudbands and green marbling; the second with a swaying flower; the third, a border tile with bole-red register; the fourth, cusped, with floral sprig, each framed, old inventory numbered labels to the reverse
The largest 11 ½ x 8 ¾in. (29.4 x 22.4cm.)

Provenance

Heinrich Jacoby (1889-1964), president of the Persische Teppich Aktien Gesellschaft (PETAG), thence by descent until purchased by the current owner

Literature

Heinrich Jacoby, Eine Sammlung Orientalischer Teppiche, Berlin, 1923, abb.71, p.92 (one of the four)

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Lot Essay

Two complete tiles of this design, which together form a symmetrical concentric medallion design, were formerly in the collection of Thomas Bryan and Jeanne Whitney, left to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 1931, and are now on display in the Islamic Galleries at the Louvre Museum, Paris (inv. AD27751_1 and AD27751_2). Further tiles and tile fragments from the same collection were sold in these Rooms, 25 October 2018, lots 216 and 217.

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