1. This is a rare intact example of Iznik pottery of the 'Golden Horn', or 'Tuğrakeş’, style, typical in its delicate blue and white spiral designs. Last sold at Sotheby’s over thirty years ago, it represents an opportunity to acquire one of the last examples of this early type of Iznik remaining in private hands.
2. This painting is of both historical and art-historical importance. Not only is it one of the few Western images of an Eastern potentate done by a European artist, but it probably also served as a primary source of inspiration for many later portraits, drawings, prints and medals of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent.
3. This is the earliest dated post-Safavid silk rug known. Ordered for the vice-regent crown prince Baba Khan, the future king, Fath-’ali Shah, it depicts the Vaq or talking tree. In Turkic legend this was a tree with fruits resembling human or animal heads, which talked with one another: “Vaq-vaq.”
