Deep hardstone bowl in shades of browns and reds in a marvered pattern
Date
Late Roman - Early Byzantine period; 4th-5th century
Height: 7.80 cm
Diameter: 31 cm
R003551
Timurid epigraphic cut-tile mosaic panel
Once part of a monumental inscription executed in opus sectile, a mosaic technique where the elements of design elements are cut to shape and fitted together to form the desired composition. The material from which the pieces of this mosaic were cut was provided by brilliantly-glazed monochrome tiles fired in deep cobalt blue, rich ochre-yellow, emerald green and light blue
A complete frieze in similar colours and style appears above the entryway to the foundation of Muhammad Sultan in the Gur-i Amir in Samarqand, Uzbekistan (illustrated in: Chuvin, P., and Degeorge, G., Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Paris, 2001, pp.14-15)
Origin
Central Asia
Date
Timurid Period; late 14th - early 15th century
Height: 44 cm
Width: 52.5 cm
Size / Dimensions
Mount size: 53 x 63 cm
Provenance
Collection of Carl Johan Lamm (1902 – 1981), Sweden
Sotheby’s London, 29/04/1992, lot 93 (part of)
Acquired there by AXIA
R005052
Iznik plate
With a sloping rim on low foot, the field filled with roses and tulips growing from a leafy shrub within a ‘wave and rock’ border.
Origin
Ottoman Turkey, Iznik
Date
Ca. 1580-1585
Diameter: 31.4 cm
Provenance
Colasanti Casa d’Aste, Rome, 16/06/2016, lot 576
Acquired there by AXIA
R003512
Iznik plate
With a sloping rim on low foot, the unusually asymmetric, bold composition consists of a large saz leaf and floral sprays within a wide ‘wave and rock’ scalloped border. Condition: one clean break expertly restored.
Origin
Ottoman Turkey, Iznik
Date
Ca. 1575-1580
Diameter: 30 cm
Provenance
Artcurial, Paris, 11/04/2013, Islamic sale lot 140
Acquired there by AXIA (and exported with French passport)
Exhibited / Published
Couleurs d'Orient, Arts et arts de vivre dans l'Empire ottoman, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels 18/11/2010 - 27/2/2011, (cat. p. 20)
R003513
Iznik plate
With a sloping rim on low foot, the ‘wave and rock’ border encloses a field bursting with tulips, roses, carnations and hyacinths on broken stems. This is an excellent example of the 'storm in a teacup' composition characteristic of some of the best Iznik plates in the ‘quatre fleurs’ style.
Origin
Ottoman Turkey, Iznik
Date
Ca. 1580-1585
Diameter: 31 cm
Provenance
Artcurial, Paris, 11/04/2013, Islamic sale lot 151
Acquired there by AXIA (and exported with French passport)
R003055
Iznik pottery tile with a ‘Rumi’ arabesque pattern
With lotus palmettes and split-leaf arabesques in a quatrefoil arrangement. Painted in cobalt blue, bole-red and turquoise outlined in black.
Origin
Ottoman Turkey, Iznik
Date
ca. 1570
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 23.6 cm
Provenance
Bonham’s, Knightsbridge, 16/10/2003, lot 247
Acquired there by AXIA
R003057
A pair Iznik polychrome border tiles on a brushed cobalt blue ground
They are decorated in bole-red and green outlined in black with lotus-palmettes on arching stems with attached pairs of serrated saz leaves. The sharpness of the drawing, the absence of any bleeding of the colours into one another and the perfect hue and density of the relief red, mark these as belonging to the heyday of polychrome ceramic ware production in Iznik during the reign of Murad III.
Origin
Ottoman Turkey, Iznik
Date
ca. 1570-80
Width: 12 cm each
Length: 27 cm each
Provenance
UK private collection since at least 1896 (newspaper fragment of that date found by restorer inside old frame)
Sotheby's, London, 15/10/2003, lot 49
Acquired there by AXIA
R000927
Iznik pottery tile
Painted in cobalt blue, bole-red and green with lotus palmettes, saz leaves and an 'S'-spray of prunus blossoms on spiralling stems
Origin
Ottoman Turkey, Iznik
Date
ca. 1580-1585
Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 25.8 cm
Provenance
Collection of the great Islamic glass specialist, Carl Johan Lamm, Sweden
Sotheby’s, London,13/10/1982, lot 209
Acquired there by AXIA