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Iznik tile with tulips Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Iznik, circa …
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Iznik tile with tulips Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Iznik, circa …
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Iznik tile with tulips
Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Iznik, circa 1560-1580
Siliceous-paste ceramic, decorated in polychrome under a transparent lead glaze, in cobalt blue, turquoise and bright red on a white slip background. The composition features a profuse bouquet of tapering tulips with red-brown petals speckled with white - alternating with ragged carnations, small flowers with red hearts and a stylised pomegranate flower; slender curved stems and turquoise lanceolate leaves enliven the entire surface.
Condition: fine glaze, slight wear.
Size: 19 x 20 cm (7.5 x 7.9 in.); wooden frame
Provenance :
Former collection of Gaston Privat de Fressenel (1881-1924), senior French official in Egypt and renowned collector, based at the Villa Privat-Gezireh in Cairo, then by descent; collection repatriated to France in 1924.
Similar works:
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, inv. no. D 470.
An Iznik polychrome pottery tile with tulips and flowers, Ottoman Empire, circa 1560-1580, from the collection of Gaston Privat de Fressenel, Cairo (1881-1924), thence by descent.
See original version (French)
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