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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1570
The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue,
turquoise, emerald-green and bole-red with a
design of staggered cusped arabesque medallions
linked by spiralling palmette vine with small saz
leaf terminals, intact, very minor chips to edges
11º x 11¡in. (28.5 x 28.7cm.)
£5,000-7,000 US$7,100-9,800
€5,800-8,100
PROVENANCE:
Anon sale, Christie's London, 10 October 2006,
lot 73

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AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1575
The white ground decorated with an oval
cartouche enclosing a tulip and carnation spray
on a cobalt-blue ground within a lobed bole-red
border, each corner with part of a stylised palmette
with tulips in cobalt-blue, bole-red and green, a
repaired crack, otherwise in good condition
10 x 10ºin. (25.3 x 25.9cm.)
£7,000-10,000 US$9,800-14,000
€8,100-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Krishnâ Riboud (1926-2000), Paris
Sold Pierre Bergé & Associes, Paris, 27 April 2007,
lot 212

A panel of four tiles of the near-identical design is
in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Remi Labrusse
(ed.), Purs Decors? Arts de l’Islam, regards du
XIX siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2008,
p.141, cat.no.103). Others decorate the tomb of
Sultan Selim II in the Hagia Sofia, attributable to
1574-75 (see one published Nurhan Atasoy and
Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey,
London, 1989, p.247, cat.479). A related tile with
cartouche design although the borders there
made up of small blue saz leaves, sold in these
Rooms, 28 October 2020, lot 127.
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