OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 16TH CENTURY

The eighteenth century tomb of Hazret-i Seyman in Diyarbekir re-used sixteenth century tiles including ones of the design seen here. For a discussion about the tile industry in Diyarbekir please see Julian Raby, "Diyarbekir, a Rival to Iznik: A sixteenth century Tile Industry in Eastern Anatolia" Istanbular Mitteilngen, Berlin, 1978. A similar tile is ilustrated in Yanni Petsopoulos (ed.), Tulips, Arabesques and Turans, London, 1982, pl.114, p.96.