AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The octagonal tile with white ground painted under the glaze in bole-red, cobalt-blue, turquoise and black, a central turquoise medallion issuing four cusped oval turquoise palmettes, each within a bole-red border and filled with white arabesques, the palmettes alternated with four blue rosettes linked by scrolling tendrils, cut down to the current octagonal form
10 x 10in. (25.5 x 25.5cm.)
Provenance
"Art D'Orient: collection du Prince Naguib Abd Allah et provenant d'une demeure parisienne des Tuileries", Artcurial, Paris, 12 December 2002, lot 32 (illustrated in catalogue)
Weksler Collection, USA, until 2020
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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The octagonal tile with white ground painted under the glaze in bole-red, cobalt-blue, turquoise and black, a central turquoise medallion issuing four cusped oval turquoise palmettes, each within a bole-red border and filled with white arabesques, the palmettes alternated with four blue rosettes linked by scrolling tendrils, cut down to the current octagonal form
10 x 10in. (25.5 x 25.5cm.)
Provenance
"Art D'Orient: collection du Prince Naguib Abd Allah et provenant d'une demeure parisienne des Tuileries", Artcurial, Paris, 12 December 2002, lot 32 (illustrated in catalogue)
Weksler Collection, USA, until 2020
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