Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . ir a very beautiful little mosquecalled, I think, the Rustem Pacha mosque, built by a grand vizier of that name inmemory of his wife. The dentist abstracted a large quantity of the tiles, andreplaced them by imitation ones made in Paris. He died soon after, and I pur-chased them through the good offices of the English consul-general, Mr. , a great collector, and considered one of the best authorities on Eastern art. Theentetes des fenetres are considered most rare and beautiful ; in fact, I doubt if
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . ir a very beautiful little mosquecalled, I think, the Rustem Pacha mosque, built by a grand vizier of that name inmemory of his wife. The dentist abstracted a large quantity of the tiles, andreplaced them by imitation ones made in Paris. He died soon after, and I pur-chased them through the good offices of the English consul-general, Mr. , a great collector, and considered one of the best authorities on Eastern art. Theentetes des fenetres are considered most rare and beautiful ; in fact, I doubt if anylike them ever left Constantinople before. The narrow blue tiles are also very pre-cious and rare, and all are of the best period of Turkish manufacture. . Mr. bought a few for the Manchester Museum. . It is to be observed that Turkish does not necessarily mean of Turkey inEurope. Tiles similar to many of these are known to be from Kutahia, in AsiaMinor, which has been a centre of the ceramic industry from the fourteenth cen-tury, when it was introduced there by Persian
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