OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1565

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AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1565
Of baluster form on short foot rising to flaring trumpet mouth and with simple loop handle, the white body decorated with stripes of cobalt-blue and bole-red, bands of blue and greenish-turquoise above the foot, at the waist and below the mouth, mouth slightly chipped, hairline crack to mouth, handle with slight restoration
9¼in. (23.6cm.) high

Provenance

Private Los Angeles Collection, sold Christie's London, 15 October 1996, lot 242. This lot had been purchased in the late 19th century by an ancestor of the American owner

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Lot Essay

This is one of a small number of vessels each of which is decorated with very similar alternating fine lines. Two examples are a dish in the Barlow Collection (Geza Fehérvári: Islamic Pottery, A Comprehensive Survey based on the Barlow Collection, London, 1973, no,280, pl,110b) and a cylindrical mug formerly in the Adda Collection (Bernard Rackham: Islamic Pottery and Italian Majolica, London, 1959, no.177, pl.79b. Similar designs are also painted on a coloured slip ground as in a jug in Nürnberg (Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibnition catalogue, Recklinghausen, 1985, vol.2, no) and a vase in the Türk ve Islam Müsezi (The Age of Sultan Sülayman the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, 1990, no.76, p.90). They represent a much more refined version of a design with swirling panels which became very popular, in Europe as well as in Turkey, to judge from the examples that were mounted in silver (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby: Iznik, The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.775 for example).

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