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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1590
Of square form, the white ground painted under the glaze with a design of swaying prunus blossom alternating with leafy vine issuing bunches of grapes
10 ¾ x 11in. (27.2 x 28cm.)
Provenance
Private American Collection by 1996, thence to the present owner

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Lot Essay

Tiles decorated with this combination of prunus branches and vine decorate the walls to the left of a window in the eastern corner of the of the Mosque of Takkeci Ibrahim Aga (1592) in the Topkapi district of Istanbul (Aslanapa, 1965, Abb. 51 or Denny, 1998, pl.99, p.176). Two other similar tile panels are in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum (41/502, Atasoy, 1992, p.154) and in the Topkapi Palace (Çinili Kök 41/502, Atil (trans.), Istanbul, 1983, no. E.171, p.209). Similar designs of winding branches of vine and prunus blossom were also used in imperial kaftans and embroideries made for the court during the second half of the 16th and early 17th century. A tile of related design sold in these Rooms, 13 April 2010, lot 238.

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