Lot Essay
A very similar bottle is in the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (Islamische Keramik, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.448, p.292).
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OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Details
A KUTAHYA POTTERY BOTTLE
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th century
The body of flaring conical form rising to the angled sloping shoulder, the tubular neck with a raised band below the slightly flaring mouth, the white surface painted in typical colours with bands of meandering flowering sprays, leaf-motifs around the neck, the mouth with small floral sprays, large conserved crack on shoulder, restored mouth chip
10 5/8in. (26.9cm.) high
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th century
The body of flaring conical form rising to the angled sloping shoulder, the tubular neck with a raised band below the slightly flaring mouth, the white surface painted in typical colours with bands of meandering flowering sprays, leaf-motifs around the neck, the mouth with small floral sprays, large conserved crack on shoulder, restored mouth chip
10 5/8in. (26.9cm.) high
Provenance
Edwin Binney III
Literature
Binney, Edwin and Denny, Walter: Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney III, Portland, Oregon, 1979, ceramic 14, pp.224-5.
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