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Lot Essay
The present jug is one of a very small number of Iznik vessels decorated on top of a coloured slip ground. In the mid-16th century, after the introduction of bole-red (ca. 1557), experiments began with other colours ranging from ochre and chocolate brown to coral and lavender blue which were applied as a slip for background colours (and sometimes also used within the decorative motifs). It was however a technique which required great skill and was not continued much beyond 1570.
The design painted on the pink slip of our jug, which is composed of palmettes contained within a cusped lattice, is also found on a water bottle from the Mosque of Sultan Selim II in Edirne (completed in 1574-75, now in the Çinili Kösk, Istanbul, Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.451, pp.240-41).
The design painted on the pink slip of our jug, which is composed of palmettes contained within a cusped lattice, is also found on a water bottle from the Mosque of Sultan Selim II in Edirne (completed in 1574-75, now in the Çinili Kösk, Istanbul, Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, no.451, pp.240-41).