PROBABLY KUTAHYA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH
PROBABLY KUTAHYA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
The square dish with short vertical walls, the white interior with a central rosette issuing a profusion of dense floral sprays, the interior sides plain white, the exterior sides with further continuous floral sprays, the underside flat and unglazed
10 1/8 (25.8cm.) square

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Lot Essay

This very unusual dish has similarities with the productions of both later Safavid Iran and of Ottoman Kutahya. The flat base with vertical walls can be found in Kutahya, although not as early as this. The drawing in the interior is hard to parallel precisely, particularly in the way that the stems cross over one another. It has similarities with drawing in Iranian dishes (Yolande Crowe, Persia and China, Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738, London, 2002, no.430, p.243) and with that found in Kutahya vessels and tiles (John Carswell, Kutahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian Cathedral of St. James, Jerusalem, Oxford 1972, vol.2, pl.11, no.24).

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