OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
The white ground painted under the glaze in bole-red, green, cobalt-blue and black with a central floral rosette issuing six smaller rosettes, the spandrels with lobed palmettes, repaired break
9 ½in. (24.5cm) square

Provenance

Private American collection, circa 2000

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Lot Essay

Tiles almost identical to that offered here 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). Two are in the collection of the Sadberk Hanim Museum (A. Altun, Sadberk Hanim Museum: Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1991, p.44). A pair of very similar tiles was sold in these Rooms, 13 April 2010, lots 236 and 237 and another 27 October 2022, lot 147.

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