Lot 90
90
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE SPANDREL
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE SPANDREL
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE SPANDREL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570-1580

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE SPANDREL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570-1580
The turquoise ground decorated with white and bole-red scrolled arabesques, separated from floral sprays and cloud motifs on a cobalt-blue ground by a red border, corner truncated with a bevelled decorated finish, a restored crack, otherwise intact
10 ¾ x 10 ¾in. (27.3 x 27.3cm.)
Provenance
Dr. Dorothea Rohwedder, Curator of Islamic Art at the Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt, 1985-1992, reputedly purchased in the 1960s or 1970s.
Literature
Martina Müller-Wiener and Max Leonhard (eds.), Ein Blick in den Paradiesgarten - Türkisch-Osmanische Keramik, Catalogue of the “Arts-Akzente-Ausstellung in der Städtischen Galerie Trauschein”, Traunstein, 2004, fig.35, p.44.
Exhibited
Ein Blick in den Paradiesgarten - Türkisch-Osmanische Keramik, Arts-Akzente-Ausstellung in der Städtischen Galerie Trauschein, 18 September - 1 November 2004

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Lot Essay

This impressive tile comes from a panel housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv.no. 431-C.1900, Arthur Lane, A Guide to the Collection of Tiles, London, 1960, pl.14a). A band of six border tiles from this panel are also found in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, no.270, p.190 Further examples of the border are in the Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, illustrated on the cover of Ara Altun, John Carswell, and Gönül Öney, Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1991, no.i.62. A further spandrel tile from the Heidi Vollmoeller Collection, which was not intact, was sold in this Rooms, 27 April 2004, lot 336 and is now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.

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