A HARDWOOD TABLETOP SET WITH POLYCHROME-PAINTED KUTAHYA POTTERY TILES
Ottoman Anatolia, ca. 1880 - 1920

The tabletop of circular shape, set with eight irradiating panels of pottery tiles painted in typical Kutahya tones including red, cobalt blue, turquoise, copper green, yellow, and manganese purple outlined in black against a white ground, decorated with a central roundel with a pentagon outlined by infinite knot bands, surrounded by concentric vegetal bands with palmettes, serrated leaves, and trellis, the wider band featuring an intricate vegetal meander design with interlocking stylised saz leaves, the outer border with a white calligraphic band in thuluth script against cobalt blue ground, mounted, 69.5cm diam.