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A pair of Iznik polychrome tiles, Turkey, circa 1575
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
each of square form painted in underglaze cobalt blue, turquoise, brown and relief red, outlined in black with a monumental palmette cartouche enclosing carnations and composite buds with broken stems issuing from a leafy tuft on a reserved blue ground, flanked by branches of prunus blossom intercepted by sprays of carnation and tulip
Catalogue Note
Similar Iznik tiles are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. MMA 17.190.2083 (see Dimand, M., A Handbook of Muhammadan Art, New York, 1947, p.222; and Petsopoulos 1982, fig.128, p.134)