OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

Details

A KUTAHYA POTTERY EWER
Ottoman Turkey, 18th century
The bold form with rounded body on spreading foot rising to a tubular mouth with angled trough spout, the sharply angled handle linking the body and neck, the body moulded with three roundels of radiating motifs glazed with green and blue details, floral painted designs at the side, a band of zigzag motifs above, the neck with vertical panels containing flowerheads, ribs around the mouth, the spout with floral designs, repaired breaks to handle and spout
11 3/8in. (28.8cm.) high

Provenance

Albert Achdjian, Paris, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 5th June 1970
Edwin Binney III

Literature

Binney, Edwin: Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd: 1981 Supplement to the 1979 Catalogue, San Diego, 1981, Ceramic 14A, pp.28-29.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Similar ewers are in the Suna and Inan Kiraç Collection (Akalin, Sebnem and Bilgi, Hülya Yilmaz: Delights of Kütahya, Istanbul, 1997, nos.40, 42 and 43) while another is in the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (Islamische Keramik, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1973, no.461, p.298). In contrast to all of these, the present ewer has a greater clarity of drawing, particularly in the lower spandrels flanking the main roundels.

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