A PANEL OF FOUR IZNIK POTTERY TILES Ottoman Turkey, 1575-85
A PANEL OF FOUR IZNIK POTTERY TILES
Ottoman Turkey, 1575-85
Fritware body, painted in cobalt blue, emerald green, bole red and black under a transparent glaze, each tile decorated with a repeating design of large cusped trefoil palmettes filled with scrolling arabesques, rendered either in reserve against the white ground or painted in blue with green and red highlights, the lower border decorated with a row of inverted smaller bole-red palmettes linked by scrolling leaves against a cobalt-blue ground, terminating in a narrow turquoise band.
Approximately 16cm x 20.7cm (4)
Tiles of this type were originally intended to be assembled into extensive border compositions adorning the walls of religious and prestigious buildings, enclosing larger decorative schemes.
For similar examples:
The Çinili Köşk Museum, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul (Gonul Oney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, 1975, nos. 99-103).
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (Maria Queiroz Ribeiro, Iznik Pottery and Tiles in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, 2009, p. 121, no. 72).
Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.
Sotheby's London, 10 October 1991, lot. 361.
Previously offered at Bonhams London, 23 April 2013, lot 73.
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A PANEL OF FOUR IZNIK POTTERY TILES
Ottoman Turkey, 1575-85
Fritware body, painted in cobalt blue, emerald green, bole red and black under a transparent glaze, each tile decorated with a repeating design of large cusped trefoil palmettes filled with scrolling arabesques, rendered either in reserve against the white ground or painted in blue with green and red highlights, the lower border decorated with a row of inverted smaller bole-red palmettes linked by scrolling leaves against a cobalt-blue ground, terminating in a narrow turquoise band.
Approximately 16cm x 20.7cm (4)
Tiles of this type were originally intended to be assembled into extensive border compositions adorning the walls of religious and prestigious buildings, enclosing larger decorative schemes.
For similar examples:
The Çinili Köşk Museum, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul (Gonul Oney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, 1975, nos. 99-103).
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (Maria Queiroz Ribeiro, Iznik Pottery and Tiles in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, 2009, p. 121, no. 72).
Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.
Sotheby's London, 10 October 1991, lot. 361.
Previously offered at Bonhams London, 23 April 2013, lot 73.
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Time, Location
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