Lot 230
An Iznik pottery Tile Turkey 1575-85
10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,960 inc. premium
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Turkey 1575-85
Turkey 1575-85
decorated in green, white and raised red reserved against a cobalt-blue ground, depicting a variety of stylised floral sprays in swirling arabesques with two prominent palmettes with cusped, white outer leaves, the remaining cobalt-blue ground filled with saz leaves, the bottom right corner with rope-twist border enclosing floral sprays, a triangular cartouche with a single floral spray, a thin white border to the top
24 x 24.2 cm.
24 x 24.2 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance:
Adda Collection
Published:
B. Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica in a Private Collection, London, 1959.
Other tiles of this type can be seen in the rooms of the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul.