comprising four tiles each decorated under glaze in cobalt blue, red and green with swirling flowerheads in a polylobed red-bordered roundel, the interstices filled with arabesques on a green ground, set in wooden frame

In generally good condition, two broken with associated restoration including overpainting, two intact, all with some abrasion to external edges, the colours not all identical with some variations in tones
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This beautiful tile panel shows the Iznik potters at the peak of their technical skills, firing the finest tomato-hued sealing-wax red offset by a brilliant emerald green. These complimentary colours are combined with the more traditional cobalt blue and fired to dazzling effect against a pure white ground.

A tile from this original frieze panel is in the Ömer Koç Collection, Istanbul (Bilgi 2015, p.354, no.151). Another is recorded in the Barlow Collection, illustrated in Fehérvári 1973, no.205, pl.90a. A set of four tiles from this group were sold in these rooms, 18 April 2007, lot 168.