Two Kutahya underglaze painted pottery Tiles
Turkey, circa 1750
Turkey, circa 1750
each decorated in blue, green and yellow with a pair of saz leaves flanking a palmette-shaped medallion containing three flowers, all against floral vines, framed
each 18 x 18 cm.(2)
each 18 x 18 cm.(2)
Sold for
£3,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: Property of an Armenian family
Identical tiles flank the Mihrab and area above the wall outside of the Mosque of Misar Bey at Kutahya. They date from the restoration of the mosque by the governor Yahn Pasha in AH 1164/ AD 1750-1 (John Carswell and C.J.F. Dowsett, Kutahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian Cathedral of St. James, Jerusalem, II, pl. 6d and p. 75). Similar tiles are also used in the Armenian Patriarchate of St. James, Jerusalem (Carswell, op cit, pl. 12 and p. 50, type 35a).
Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art
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