CIRCA 1570, OTTOMAN TURKEY

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An Iznik pottery dish
CIRCA 1570, OTTOMAN TURKEY
The white interior painted with an asymmetric design of carnations, tulips, roses and red flowering branches issuing from leaves, the border with stylised wave and scrolling motifs, pierced with an aperture for suspension, with cusped sloping rim on short foot, the exterior with alternating blue and green rosettes and groups of three tulips, the foot rim pierced with two apertures for suspension (one hairline crack circa 4 cm. wide and one circa 3 cm. wide to the border, with a loss and a chip to the foot rim)
31 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

See N. Atasoy & J. Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, p. 227 no. 399 for a related dish.
Another related dish sold at Christie's London, 15 October 2002, lot 319.

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