OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, TURKEY, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SÜLEYMANIYE WARE ENAMELLED COVERED DISH
OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, TURKEY, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The dish with rounded sides and everted rim on short foot, the cover rising in two stepped domes with lower skirt, applied brass acorn finial, the green enamel exterior painted with panels of polychrome floral sprays within frames of gold lobed designs, the underside and interior plain white
8 1/8in. (20.7cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a brief introduction to Süleymaniye ware, together with an illustration of various examples including a blue ground covered dish of very similar form and decoration to the present example, please see Hülya Yilmaz and Sebnem Akalin, Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, 1995, pp.102-3 esp.no.2.

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