Oliver White
Head of Department
Lot 73
A panel of four Iznik pottery Tiles
Turkey, 1575-85
(4)
23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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A panel of four Iznik pottery Tiles
Turkey, 1575-85
Turkey, 1575-85
each rectangular, decorated in cobalt-blue, green, raised red and black on a white ground with a frieze of arabesque-filled, large trefoils
each 26 x 21 cm.(4)
each 26 x 21 cm.(4)
Footnotes
Tiles of this type would have originally formed part of a much larger continuous border, which would have framed an inner floral design to the wall of a mosque or a palace.
A group of tiles of similar design can be seen in the Cinili Kiosk Museum at the Topkapi Palace, Istanbbul (Gonul Oney and Banri Namikawa, Turkish Ceramic Tile Art, 1975, nos. 99-103); and another group with red ground trefoils, can be seen in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon (Maria Queiroz Ribeiro, Iznik Pottery and Tiles in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, 2009, p. 121, no. 72).