A glazed ceramic tile

Description:

Ottoman, probably 16th c.
14,5 x 17,5 cm
White slip with complex arabesque ornamentation and cloud-band motifs in underglaze blue, green, turquoise, black and aubergine. Fragment of a repeating pattern.
From a North German private collection, assembled before 1967 by the grandftaher according to the present owner - Cf. Petsopoulos, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk unter den Ottomanen, Munich (1982), fig. 110 - Partly chipped and minor wear