OTTOMAN ‘IMITATION IZNIK’ POTTERY TILE EGYPT, 17TH CENTURY of square form, decorated in blue, turquoise and black outline, with interlacing flowerheads and split palmettes symmetrically centred around a turquoise flowerhead (23.2cm square) Qty: (1) Provenance: Private collection of a notable Ottoman family in London. The collection is from a notable Ottoman land-owning family, that married over generations into the Sultans’ court. Some were judges, civil servants and vizirs in the Damascus vilayet, as well as members of parliament to the Sublime Porte.