Lot 42
42
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585

Details
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1585
The white ground painted under the glaze in bole-red, green, cobalt-blue, turquoise and black with a central floral rosette issuing six smaller rosettes, the spandrels with lobed palmettes
10in. (25cm.) square
Provenance
Anon. sale, René Laurin, Yannick Guilloux, Éric Buffetaud and Dominique Tailleur, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 June 1982, lot 41 (illustrated)
Private collection, France

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Lot Essay

Tiles almost identical to that offered here can be seen in Istanbul around the mihrab of the Mesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque, built by Sinan in 1585 for a vizier of Murad III (r.1574-95). Two are in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (A. Altun, Sadberk Hanim Museum: Turkish Tiles and Ceramics, Istanbul, 1991, p.44). Examples of very similar tiles were sold in these Rooms, 13 April 2010, lots 236 and 237; 27 October 2022, lot 147; and 24 October 2024, lot 29.

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