Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Auction Closed
October 27, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A RARE OTTOMAN CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE, TURKEY, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY
decorated in blue, turquoise, green, white and yellow with black outlines, with a symmetrical design based on a central flowerhead from which radiate split-palmettes with lotuses at the centre, in wood frame
25.6 by 26cm.
Ex-private collection, Greece.
Tiles of this rare form decorated the panels on the exterior of the Arz Odasi (Hall of Petitions or Throne Room) and the Sunnet Odasi (Circumcision Pavilion) in the Topkapi Palace (see J.M. Rogers (ed.), The Topkapi Saray Museum-Architecture-the Harem and other Buildings, London, 1988, pls.97 & 111).
These particular tiles were the work of a group of Persian craftsmen whose most elaborate accomplishment was the tiling of the interior of the mausoleum of Selim I (1522) as well as the Kasim Pasha Mosque in Bozoyuk (1529). They later moved to Jerusalem to assist with the tiling of the exterior of the Dome of the Rock as part of Sultan Suleyman's project to restore the holy sites of Islam.
