Lot 147
147
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
Decorated with a central floral rosette issuing six smaller whirling rosettes with leafy tendrils within a bole-red lobed roundel against a green field, the spandrels with lobed palmettes, repaired break
10in. (25.4cm.) square
Provenance
Oliver Hoare (d.2018), sold in these Rooms 25 October 2019, lot 23

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Lot Essay

Tiles almost identical to the present lot can be seen in Istanbul around the mihrab of the Mesih Pasha Mosque, built by Sinan in 1585 for a vizier of Murad III (r. 1574-95). A pair of them is in the collection of the Sadberk Hanim Museum (A. Altun, Sadberk Hanim Museum: Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1991, p. 44). A further pair was also sold in these Rooms, 13 April 2010, lots 236 and 237.

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