Description A LOT WITH TWO PERSIAN TILES WITH POLO PLAYERSPersia, first half of the 20th century. One of a square form and the other of a round shape, the glaze suffused with crackles, decorated in polychrome paintwork, both depicting men on horseback playing the game Chovgan, a sports team game with specially trained horses, originating from ancient Persia, adopted in the Western World as Polo.Condition: With surface wear, firing flaws, chips to the edges, the square form tile with touch ups and repaired breakages.Provenance: Family collection of either Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) or his son-in-law Louis (Loek) Borensztajn (1935-2021), Netherlands. Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) was an architect, art collector, dealer, and founder of the first Museum of Japanese Art in the Middle East. He became one of the world's leading collectors of Japanese art, starting at the age of 18, and continued to collect and work as an art dealer in Berlin in the 1920s. In the 1930s Felix Tikotin fled from the Nazis and hid his collection in the Netherlands. After the war, he decided that his collection should be taken to Israel, where in 1959 and with the help of Abba Hushi, who was the mayor of Haifa, The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art was established. The Museum's collection comprises more than 8,000 items of art and crafts.  Weight: 3261 g (total)Dimensions: Size (square tile) 19.3 x 19.5 cm, Diameter (round tile) 26.8 cm