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A PAIR OF IZNIK POTTERY TILES
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and turquoise with two saz leaves overlaid
with tulips surrounded by flowering prunus blossoms, beneath a red cartouche with tulips, similar partial
cartouches in the lower corners, blue part palmettes in the upper corners
Each 9Ω x 9Ωin. (24.5 x 24.5cm.)
£18,000-24,000 US$26,000-34,000
€21,000-28,000
PROVENANCE:
Ader Picard Tajan, Art Islamique, Tableaux Orientalistes, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 27 and 28 May 1991, lot 80
This pair of tiles is from a group associated with the Eyüp shrine and mosque complex on the Golden
Horn in Istanbul. A large panel from the baths at Eyüp is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
(acc.no.401:1 to 24-1900). Other panels are in the Louvre, Paris, the Gulbenkian, Lisbon and the David
Collection, Copenhagen (the latter published Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of
Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p.247, cat.477). A single tile of the same design sold in these Rooms,
7 April 2011, lot 112. Another pair was sold Christie’s, Paris 7 March 2007, lot 130

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