ID 828745
Lot 141 | AN IZNIK POTTERY MECCA TILE
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
OTTOMAN TURKEY, MID 17TH CENTURY
The white ground painted with cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and black under the glaze, decorated in the upper section with a calligraphic cartouche containing the Shahada, the lower section with the top of a depiction of the mosque at Mecca, two further scalloped cartouches also containing the Shahada, a metal mounting plate affixed to the back with two screws in the top corners
13 x 15 3/8in. (33 x 39cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection Denmark, purchased in the 1920s-30s
Inherited in 1940; thence by descent to the previous owner
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Manufactur: | Iznik |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | Pottery, All other types of objects |
| Manufactur: | Iznik |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | Pottery, All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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