OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY

Tiles of a similar pattern as the larger tile with this intense bole red and undulating Chinese clouds are located in the domed ante-room to the Has Oda of Murad III (1579) at the Topkapi Saray Palace (Rogers, 1988, p.32, fig. 62-64). Other panels and single tiles of this design are in museums across the world. A single tile is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ekhtiar, et. al., 2011, no.218A, p.209); and a panel is in the Gulbenkian Collection (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Catalogue, Lisbon, 1982, no.119, p.191). Two tiles of this design were sold from the Theodor Sehmer Collection in these Rooms, 27 April 2004, lot 338 while further examples from a French collection were sold at Christie's, Paris, 7 March 2007, lots 117 and 121; and 26 April 2012, lot 256.