AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
TURKEY, CIRCA 1575

With cusped sloping rim on short foot, the white interior painted in green, blue, red and black with a central rosette flanked by four radiating floral sprays divided by paired red split palmettes each flanking a central palmette, in a border of stylised waves, rocks and whorls, the reverse with paired blue tulips alternating with blue and green rosettes, hair cracks, very slight rim chips, rim and foot drilled
13 7/8in. (35.2cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stefanos Lagonicos
Jean Lagonico

Exhibited

Exposition d'Art Musulman, Alexandria, 1925, illustrated in the catalogue to that exhibition by Gaston Migeon as pl.29A.

Lot Essay

The dominant red split palmettes dividing the floral sprays and enclosing a blue palmette link this dish to a large example in the Wallace Collection where this motif is used in the border (Robinson, W.J.,'And a Peacock in a Saz Tree', in Apollo, September 1989, vol.CXXX, no.331, pp.166ff.) and a penbox in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Atil, Esin.: The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1987, pl.193, p.268). The same motif is used as the major feature of tiles, again enclosing a blue palmette such as a group in the Victoria and Albert Museum, inv.no.C2005-1910. A simpler version of the field design of this dish was on an example sold in these Rooms 10 October 1989, lot 373.

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