AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600

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AN IZNIK POTTERY DISH
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600
With sloping rim on short foot, the white interior painted in cobalt-blue, green, bole-red and black with a central cypress tree and blue tulip on a ground of asymmetric spiralling tendrils issuing roses and floral blooms, the rim with alternating saz leaves and red flowerheads, the exterior with alternating blue and green motifs, with old collection label and traces of another, repaired breaks
12 7/8in. (32.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

Jacques Soustiel,
Private Collection, Marseille,
The Vincent Bulent Collection, sold Christie's, London, 26 April 2005, lot 36

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Lot Essay

The form of this dish, with its very small cavetto and low flat rim derives from European prototypes. A number of dishes of similar form bear European armorials (Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik, the Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, nos.575-586, pp.264-5). An example with European arms was sold in these Rooms 27 April 1993, lot 201). The later examples of this form seem to be typified, as here, by a particularly energetic swirling floral design used in the border.

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