Lot 8
8
A WARSAW FAIENCE IMARI-PATTERN INSCRIBED OVAL TUREEN-STAND, the centre painted with a jardiniere of flowering branches flanked by fences on a terrace within a blue border reserved with gilt Turkish inscriptions and with four panels of birds among flowering shrubs on a ground of iron-red chrysanthemum, the moulded handles formed as parrots, the underside with trailing branches within a diaper border, Belvedere factory, circa 1776

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A WARSAW FAIENCE IMARI-PATTERN INSCRIBED OVAL TUREEN-STAND, the centre painted with a jardiniere of flowering branches flanked by fences on a terrace within a blue border reserved with gilt Turkish inscriptions and with four panels of birds among flowering shrubs on a ground of iron-red chrysanthemum, the moulded handles formed as parrots, the underside with trailing branches within a diaper border, Belvedere factory, circa 1776
33cm. wide

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From the service ordered by Stanislas Poniatowski for the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid I in 1776

Cf. other examples, from the collection of Sir Terence Rattigan, sold in these Rooms 8 April 1974, lots 113 & 114 and Christie's Geneva, 17 November 1980, lot 11; see also Halina Chojnacka, Warsaw 18th Century Faience (National Museum in Warsaw), pl. 4

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