Lot 7

AN IZNIK POTTERY TILE DECORATED WITH TULIPS, CARNATIONS AND LOTUS FLOWERS
TURKEY, CIRCA 1575




Auction: 10 December 2025 from 14:00 GMT
Description
of square form, decorated in cobalt blue, bole red and green on a white ground under a transparent glaze with a partial cusped palmette containing undulating carnations, tulips, khatai blossoms and saz leaves, surrounded by further flowers
Dimensions
25.4cm square
Provenance
Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 7th May 2008, lot 227.
Footnote
This colourful and vivacious design almost includes all of the favourite flowers employed during the Ottoman Empire. For an almost identical panel of tiles in the Gulbenkian see Maria D'Orey Capucho Queiroz Ribeiro, Iznik Pottery and Tiles in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Scala 2009, p. 126.



