"AN IZNIK STYLE POTTERY TILE PANEL KUTAHYA, TURKEY CIRCA 19...

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£3,000 - £5,000

"AN IZNIK STYLE POTTERY TILE PANEL
KUTAHYA, TURKEY
CIRCA 1900
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The rectangular panel formed of four square tiles and 4 rectangular tiles, the white ground painted in turquoise, green, cobalt-blue and bole-red with curved vines issuing large palmettes, tulips, carnations and red and blue hyacinths, 120 x 20,5 cm

A rectangular border tile, the cobalt-blue ground painted in turquoise and light red within black outlines with a design of meandering flowers and palmette vine intertwined with meandering saz leaf tendrils, rim chips, possibly reduced at one side

Examples can be seen on the walls of the Eyup Sultan complex in Istanbul. Please see, Walter Denny, Gardens of Paradise: 16th Century Turkish Ceramic Tile Decoration, Ertuğ & Kocabıyık, Vetsch / Co, 1998, p. 110, plate 60.
These tiles were also used in the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul. See, Belgin Demirsar Arlı & Ara Altun’s Tiles: Treasures of Anatolian Soil – Ottoman Period, Kale Group, Istanbul, 2008, pp. 278-279. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul, was built by the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-1617), between 1609-1617. The mosque was designed by court architect Sedefkâr Mehmed Agha and its interior decoration was supervised by the Ottoman court artist Kalender Cavush