IZNIK POTTERY BORDER TILE
The bole-red ground is decorated with white and cobalt blue with interlacing scrolling palmettes, with green accents and a black outline, thin turquoise border at top and bottom.
25 x 15.5 cm
These border tiles were used in Has Oda (privy Chamber) of Murad III at the Topkapi Saray Palace and its large domed antechamber which dates to 1578 (J. M. Rogers (ed.), “The Topkapi Saray Museum”, Architecture, Boston, 1988, pl.64).
Tiles of this design are widely dispersed and can be found in museum collections the world over. See, for example, tiles in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, or twenty in the Gulbenkian Collection (Turkish Kunst und Culture aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1986, vol. 2, p.176). A further tile of this design is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, bequest of Edwin Binney 3rd, and another is in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam, Copenhagen, 2001, no.266, p.189).
Provenance: Private collection from Paris from 1975-2000
