An Iznik earthenware tile
An Iznik earthenware tile
Fritware, glazed white, underglaze decoration in two shades of blue, turquoise, with iron red in light relief and black outlines. With a central spiralling tendril motif surrounded by halfed palmettes and pomegranates. Chips to the edges, one 2.5 cm x 1.5 cm gap in the glaze, craquelure. 25.8 cm x 25.5 cm x 1.9 cm.
Turkey, around 1560 - 70.
Provenance
Christie's London on 10th October 2006, lot 82.
Literature
Cf. Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln. Majolica, Cologne 1966, cat. no. 119, inv. no. E 803.
Cf. Denny, Gardens of Paradise. 16th Century Turkish Ceramic Tiles Decoration, Istanbul 1998, fig. 36 f., p. 70.
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An Iznik earthenware tile
Fritware, glazed white, underglaze decoration in two shades of blue, turquoise, with iron red in light relief and black outlines. With a central spiralling tendril motif surrounded by halfed palmettes and pomegranates. Chips to the edges, one 2.5 cm x 1.5 cm gap in the glaze, craquelure. 25.8 cm x 25.5 cm x 1.9 cm.
Turkey, around 1560 - 70.
Provenance
Christie's London on 10th October 2006, lot 82.
Literature
Cf. Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln. Majolica, Cologne 1966, cat. no. 119, inv. no. E 803.
Cf. Denny, Gardens of Paradise. 16th Century Turkish Ceramic Tiles Decoration, Istanbul 1998, fig. 36 f., p. 70.
