Ending 7th Jan, 2025 12:00
The Christmas Collection, an Online Time Auction
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A FRAGMENTARY EARLY OTTOMAN CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
Ottoman Turkey, first half 16th century
A FRAGMENTARY EARLY OTTOMAN CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
Ottoman Turkey, first half 16th century
Of square shape, painted in yellow, green, cobalt blue and turquoise with black outlines on a white ground, decorated with a symmetrical design based on a cusped eight-pointed floral medallion spraying arabesque cartouches, vegetal trellis, and lobed rosettes, around the outer margins halved lotus flowers, the two Ottoman fragments encased within a 19th-century wooden frame with painted gesso fragments acting as fillers for the missing parts of the original tile.
33.8cm x 33.8cm including the frame
For a similar complete example, please see Sotheby's London, 27 October 2020, lot 482. Ottoman cuerda seca tiles of this kind can be found decorating the walls of the Arz Odasi (Hall of Petitions or Throne Room) and the Sunnet Odasi (Circumcision Pavilion) in the Topkapi Palace (J.M. Rogers (ed.), The Topkapi Saray Museum, Architecture, the Harem and other Buildings, 1988, plates 97 and 111).
It is believed that these particular tiles were the work of a group of Persian craftsmen responsible for the tiling of the interior of the mausoleum of Selim I (1522) as well as the Kasim Pasha Mosque in Bozoyuk (1529). The group later moved to Jerusalem and assisted with the decoration of the exterior of the Dome of the Rock as part of Sultan Suleyman's project to restore the holy sites of Islam.
Sold for £221
A FRAGMENTARY EARLY OTTOMAN CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
Ottoman Turkey, first half 16th century
Of square shape, painted in yellow, green, cobalt blue and turquoise with black outlines on a white ground, decorated with a symmetrical design based on a cusped eight-pointed floral medallion spraying arabesque cartouches, vegetal trellis, and lobed rosettes, around the outer margins halved lotus flowers, the two Ottoman fragments encased within a 19th-century wooden frame with painted gesso fragments acting as fillers for the missing parts of the original tile.
33.8cm x 33.8cm including the frame
For a similar complete example, please see Sotheby's London, 27 October 2020, lot 482. Ottoman cuerda seca tiles of this kind can be found decorating the walls of the Arz Odasi (Hall of Petitions or Throne Room) and the Sunnet Odasi (Circumcision Pavilion) in the Topkapi Palace (J.M. Rogers (ed.), The Topkapi Saray Museum, Architecture, the Harem and other Buildings, 1988, plates 97 and 111).
It is believed that these particular tiles were the work of a group of Persian craftsmen responsible for the tiling of the interior of the mausoleum of Selim I (1522) as well as the Kasim Pasha Mosque in Bozoyuk (1529). The group later moved to Jerusalem and assisted with the decoration of the exterior of the Dome of the Rock as part of Sultan Suleyman's project to restore the holy sites of Islam.
Auction: The Christmas Collection, an Online Time Auction, ending 7th Jan, 2025
The first Online Only sale of Azca Auctions has landed.
We will accompany you through the Christmas holidays with some extravagant, quirky, and sparkly lots. The auction is entirely online, and bidding begins on the 11th December and closes on the 7th January 2025.
Collections are taking place from 188 R Hammersmith road, W6 7DJ once the sale closes.
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