OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560

Details

AN IZNIK POTTERY JUG
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1560
Of baluster form with short foot rising to flaring mouth and with simple loop handle, the white body decorated with cobalt-blue, green, red and black under the glaze with alternating branches of red flowerheads and blue saz leaves, a similar but reduced pattern on the neck, a short band of black S-shapes around the neck and a band of white trilobed motifs with red centres around the mouth, slight restoration to rim and foot
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's, 11 October 1990, lot 479

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Like the Girton College water bottle (surahi) sold in these Rooms, 24 April 1990, lot 386 and the Iznik jug with ships that was offered in these Rooms, 7 October 2008, lot 424, this jug is very thinly potted.

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