tile panel

Lot 233. A monumental late Safavid cuerda seca pottery tile panel, Persia, 18th century; 133 by 232cm. Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 GBP. Lot sold 68,750 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's. comprising forty-five cuerda-seca pottery tiles decorated in two shades of green, blue, yellow, mauve, brown and black outlines, forming a courtly scene. Provenance: Bonham's London, 1 May 2003, lot 298. Ex-collection William Randolph Hurst, CA (1863-1951). Note: This pottery tile panel is one of the elaborate and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 97. A Timurid moulded pottery tile panel, Central Asia, late 14th-early 15th century; 15¼ x 11in. (38.7 x 28cm.) at largest. Estimate GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000. Price realised GBP 35,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2013 Of rectangular form painted in cobalt-blue, turquoise and white, the surface moulded with a central eight-pointed star containing a central rosette and four further minor rosettes on a ground of scrolling arabesque, surrounded by bands of quatrefoils, fragments of a further... [Lire la suite]

Lot 181. A Diyarbakir mihrab tile panel, Turkey, Ottoman, last quarter 16th century; tiles: 128 by 98cm., mounted: 136 by 106.5cm., central tiles: 32.2 by 32.2cm. Estimate: £300,000 - £500,000. Lot Sold 250,000 GBP (323,575 USD). Courtesy Sotheby's. Provenance: Sold in these rooms, The Turkish Sale, London, 11 October 1996, lot 36.Previously in an Armenian family from before the First World War.  InscriptionsCentral panel:ya allah al-mahmud fi kull fi'alihi'O God! The Praised one... [Lire la suite]

A Dutch Delft blue and white plaque, Early 18th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010 Delicately painted with a couple walking in an extensive Italianate landscape, another figure crossing a bridge leading from a castle, refilled pierced hole; 22 x 32 cm., in wood frame - Estimate €5,000 - €7,000 A Dutch Delft blue and white plaque. 18th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010 Of square shape with indented corners, painted overall with an amorous couple in a meadow flanked by goats, pierced for hanging, frits... [Lire la suite]

An Iznik pottery tile panel, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1575. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2010 Composed of twelve square tiles, the surface decorated in cobalt- blue, turquoise, green, brown and bole red with an overall design of columns of alternating circular and ogival medallions each outlined in red, the circular medallions containing a design of tulips and carnations issuing from a central rosette reserved against blue ground and the ogival medallions with a central tulip flanked by hyacinth sprays, dividing by branches bearing... [Lire la suite]