A Diyarbakir frieze panel, Turkey, 16th century , composed of two rows of rectangular buff earthenware tiles depicting central arabesque medallions and reserved medallions highlighted with dull red (Armenian bole) scrolling and dotting, flanked by fleur-de-lis type reserved cartouches, outlined in green, within a dark green cabled border and a plain cobalt blue guard ship at the bottom, 110cm high and 39cm wide"Provenance: Spink & Son in 1980’s from where purchased by the present ownerThese heavily glazed tiles are from, or of the same type of tiles used in, the Hazreti-I Suleyman tomb in Diyarbakir, Turkey. This striking so-called ‘new blue’ has a more strident effect than the light blue used in Iznik tiles of the same era whilst the relief red is of greyish anaemic colour. An identical tile is published in ‘Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans-Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire’, Yanni Petsopoulos, Alexandria Press. 1982.An example can also be seen in The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia, Registration number A9636-19"