OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The white ground painted under the glaze in bole-red, cobalt-blue, turquoise and green, traces of surface gilding, decorated with composite lotuses on trailing vine with saz leaves, a thick bole-red border on one side with continuous meandering white composite rosettes and saz leaves between narrow turquoise margins, one edge stepped, the reverse with a later fragmentary sticker, intact
10 1⁄8 x 8 ¾in. (25.8 x 22.3cm.)

Provenance

Bernheimer Kunst und Antiquitaten, Munich, sold July 1983 to Dr. Ursula Braun (d. 2024)

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Lot Essay

An almost identical tile to that offered here is in the British Museum (1887,0617.31; published in Venetia Porter, Islamic Tiles, 1995, p.110). A similar tile with a wide bole-red border and lotus palmettes is published in in Hülya Bilgi, Dance of Fire: Iznik Tiles and Ceramics in the Sadberk Hanim Museum and Ömer M. Koç Collections, 2009, p.202.

For a short note on Dr. Ursula Braun, from whose collection this and the following two lots come, see lot 1 in the present sale.

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