Lot 220
An Iznik pottery Tile Turkey, circa 1560
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £11,950 inc. premium
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Turkey, circa 1560
Turkey, circa 1560
decorated in cobalt-blue, green, raised red and black outlines with a design of four palmettes centred on a rosette, arabesque split leaves between
26 cm. diam.
26 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Design elements on this tile which was produced in the last decade of Sultan Suleymans reign, compares with that of a mosque lamp that was made for the Suleymaniye (completed 1557). The sparse orangey-red and turquoise-green confirm this dating (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, fig.377 and p. 224).