AN IZNIK POTTERY TILEOTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560AN IZNIK POTTERY TILEOTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560The white ground painted in cobalt-blue, turquoise, and black, with two central swirling saz leaves surrounded by rosettes and palmette buds, restored10 1/4 x 10 5/8in. (26 x 27cm.)When published by Grünberg and Torn in 1988, the authors of the catalogue wrote that “this superb tile is an archetypal example of the so-called saz style”. The most famous examples of this saz style, is the group of blue and turquoise tile panels on the façade of the Sünnet Odasi in the Topkapi Palace, possibly done by the court designer, Şahkulu in the mid 16th century. A similar tile to that offered here is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 1978.350; published Maryam D. Ekhtiar, Priscilla P. Soucek, Sheila R. Canby and Navina Najat Haidar (eds.), Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011,p.308, no.217).细节 AN IZNIK POTTERY TILEOTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560The white ground painted in cobalt-blue, turquoise, and black, with two central swirling saz leaves surrounded by rosettes and palmette buds, restored10 1/4 x 10 5/8in. (26 x 27cm.) 出版 E. Grünberg and E.M. Torn, Four Centuries of Ottoman Taste, The Kyberg Gallery, London, 1988, cat.16 (and back cover)Couleurs dOrient, Arts en arts de vivre dans lEmpire Ottoman, Exhibition Catalogue, Fondation Boghossian, 2010, p.47 (illustrated). 展览 E. Grünberg and E.M. Torn, Four Centuries of Ottoman Taste, The Kyberg Gallery, London, 16-22 April 1988Couleurs dOrient, Arts en arts de vivre dans lEmpire Ottoman, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels, 18 November 2010-27 February 2011