An Iznik pottery tile Turkey, circa 1575
Property from a Private Belgian Collection
An Iznik pottery tile
Turkey, circa 1575
of square form, decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, turquoise and green with black outline on a white ground with two scrolling tendrils terminating in roses and overlaid with partial floral medallions, the interstices with cloudbands
25.4 x 25.6 cm.
Provenance
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 2010, lot 251.
Private Belgian collection acquired at Mansour Gallery, London on the 7th of April 2001, and thence by descent.
Similar treatment of roses can be seen on Iznik tiles in the Cinili Kiosk Museum at the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul (Gonul Oney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, 1975, nos. 69, 70 and 74).
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Property from a Private Belgian Collection
An Iznik pottery tile
Turkey, circa 1575
of square form, decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, turquoise and green with black outline on a white ground with two scrolling tendrils terminating in roses and overlaid with partial floral medallions, the interstices with cloudbands
25.4 x 25.6 cm.
Provenance
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 2010, lot 251.
Private Belgian collection acquired at Mansour Gallery, London on the 7th of April 2001, and thence by descent.
Similar treatment of roses can be seen on Iznik tiles in the Cinili Kiosk Museum at the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul (Gonul Oney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, 1975, nos. 69, 70 and 74).
