A fine Iznik polychrome pottery tile with prunus blossoms, Turkey, circa 1575
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October 27, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of square form painted in underglaze cobalt blue, green, brown and relief red, outlined in black, showing half of a monumental palmette cartouche enclosing carnations, saz leaves and composite buds with broken stems reserved on a blue ground, flanked by branches of prunus blossom intercepted by sprays of carnations and tulips
23.4 by 23.1cm.
Ex-collection Jens Christian Larsen (1900-65), Denmark, purchased at Ferlov, 1963, thence by descent.
Holding roles as factory inspector and later working as a special inspector for the Danish Working Environment Authority, Jens Christian Larsen held many interests and became a keen and eclectic collector of antiques, books and tiles from the Islamic world and Europe as well as contemporary art. He sat both on the board of the Danish Association of Book Crafts and was a member of the Kolding Art Association.
Holding roles as factory inspector and later working as a special inspector for the Danish Working Environment Authority, Jens Christian Larsen held many interests and became a keen and eclectic collector of antiques, books and tiles from the Islamic world and Europe as well as contemporary art. He sat both on the board of the Danish Association of Book Crafts and was a member of the Kolding Art Association.
Iznik tiles with a similar design of prunus blossoms between foliate palmettes containing further floral details are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no.MMA 17.190.2083. A pair of tiles which originally must have belonged to the same frieze were sold in these rooms, 18 April 2007, lot 171.
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