A BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL IZNIK POTTERY TILE
Ottoman Turkey, circa 1520 - 1550

Of hexagonal shape, painted in cobalt blue and turquoise over a white ground, decorated with radiating arabesques flanking palmettes amidst full-blown lotus flowers tendrils, mounted on a white plastic hanging frame, 21cm wide including the frame.

Provenance: acquired in Greece by the present owner, April 1984.

Tiles such as this and the previous lot are usually associated with the facade of the Sünnet Odası in the Topkapi Saray Palace and similar examples can be found in many museums collections including the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Musée catalogue, 1982, no. 122, p. 191); the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (inv. no. CIRC.32-1953, 507-1900, 507A-1900); and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 23.12.3).